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• Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Build a Climate Resilient World

  Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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  • July 30, 2009, 8:00 AM to 9:30 PM
  • August 01, 2009, 8:00 AM to 9:30 PM
  
  

  Forty experts gathered for the Brookings Blum Roundtable to discuss the impact of climate change and the global financial crisis on the world's poor. The experts formed recommendations for global leaders as they prepare to meet in Copenhagen in December to address solutions to global climate change.

• Development in the Balance: How Will the World’s Poor Cope with Climate Change?

  Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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  • August 01, 2008, 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM
  • August 03, 2008, 8:00 AM to 9:30 PM
  
  

  In its fifth annual gathering, the Brookings Blum Roundtable addressed the challenges of climate change and development and convened leaders from both the development and climate change communities to discuss and debate policy ideas that could benefit both fronts. By examining common challenges—accountability, effective deployment of resources, agenda-setting, mobilizing the public and financial resources, and achieving scale and sustainability—the roundtable established a solid foundation for collaboration among the climate change and development communities and fostered ideas for policy action.

• Development's Changing Face: New Players, Old Challenges, Fresh Opportunities

  Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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  • August 01, 2007 at 12:00 AM
  
  

  On August 1-3, 2007, the Brookings Blum Roundtable gathered representatives reflective of this dynamic landscape to discuss these trends. Through robust discussion and continuing cross-sector partnerships, the conference hopes to foster lasting and widespread improvements in this new field of development.

• The Tangled Web: The Poverty-Insecurity Nexus

  Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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  • August 02, 2006 at 12:00 AM
  • August 04, 2006 at 12:00 AM
  
  

  Poverty is both a cause of insecurity and a product of it. To explore this tangled web, in August 2006, the Brookings Blum Roundtable discussed the challenges and possible solutions with a diverse group of leaders, including policymakers, business executives and academics, and developed recommendations for change.