New Security Beat

Global Risk and Resilience Program and @PolarInstitute's Mike Sfraga kicks off the first panel with @Maisa_Rojas @Shanna_McClain @NASAEarth @Winnie_Wylau @pewenvironment. Send in questions to stip@wilsoncenter.org or tag @WilsonSTIP

"We’ve never seen the international community raising together to solve this problem." @Maisa_Rojas on the implications of #COVID19 and the importance of valuing scientists during this time.

.@Maisa_Rojas mentions the importance of scientists working cross-sectorally, having good science advisors, and what #Chile has learned through hosting #COP25.

User-driven data drives @Shanna_McClain's work at @NASAEarth where she is focused on the end-user and wants to know "what it’s going to do to help people on the ground with real-world problems." They often do this through non-conventional partners towards building #resilience.

Human-center design and the need to "translate" data and statistics so both data scientists and humanitarians can move towards closing science-policy and science-action gaps - @Shanna_McClain @NASAEarth #EarthDayatWilson

How do you begin to tackle the world's plastic problem? @Winnie_WYLau @pewenvironment's team modeled the global plastic system to develop strategies to diminish ocean #plasticpollution. Findings are to be released in June!

Teasers of @pewenvironment's results: 1. There is no single solution to this problem, it's going to take a global approach. A path does exist. 2. There are promising results after conducting a global policy analysis to see the global governments' response to plastic pollution