ReGrow West Africa Partnership, A Featured CGI Commitment

RESOLVE and Partners Make New Commitment to Reignite Post-Ebola Sustainable Economic Development in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra

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Clinton Global Initiative Features ReGrow West Africa

Today RESOLVE was featured at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting to announce a new CGI Commitment to Action, ReGrow West Africa, which aims to catalyze sustainable economic recovery in the three West African countries most affected by Ebola – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

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Jewelry Industry Shines in Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking

Fighting the trade in illegal ivory is a group effort, and the jewelry sector is taking the lead.

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Eureka! – Mike Loch on Joining RESOLVE as a Strategic Partner

Some people in life know exactly what they want to do from the moment they are born. For me, it has been more of a directionally correct journey with various course corrections along the way.

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A New Online Hub for Innovation to Save Earth’s Biodiversity

RESOLVE’s Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions program has joined forces with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the environmental news website Mongabay.com to develop an online platform, wildtech.mongabay.com, to spark and share innovative, technology-driven solutions to address the alarming decline of Earth’s biodiversity.

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Remembering Robert Craig

Robert W. Craig was a visionary who helped create and lead the field of environment conflict resolution and solutions development and implementation. He was also a mountaineering legend. Bob passed on January 16, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. He was 90.

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What are the “Foundational Capabilities” of a Functioning Public Health System?

The de Beaumont Foundation and RESOLVE recently teamed up to conduct research and publish two articles further examining how practitioners in governmental public health are conceptualizing, defining, and funding foundational capabilities and foundational areas.

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Expanding Commercial Agriculture without Clearing Pristine Rainforest

RESOLVE’s Dr. Eric Dinerstein and colleagues at Woods Hole Research Center, World Wildlife Fund, and University of Minnesota have identified 125 million hectares (309 million acres) of degraded lands in the tropics that could support expansion of commercial agriculture for another 25-50 years without clearing more pristine rainforest.

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BWS Director Eric Dinerstein – Why I Joined RESOLVE

The move to RESOLVE seemed like a natural continuation of pursuing my passion and commitment to speaking for those species that have no voice in their own future.

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6th Sustainability Breakfast Features New Technologies

RESOLVE hosted the sixth in our ongoing Sustainability Breakfast series. The event – “Eat a Bear Claw, Save an Elephant” – focused on the nexus of technology and wildlife biodiversity challenges.

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Expansion of Solutions for Hope Platform

It’s a busy but exciting time! We are identifying applications in the African Great Lakes Region on gold, and we’re planning pilots to develop verifiable conflict-free supply chains in Colombia.

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Solutions for Hope Program recieves grant from Motorola Solutions

The Motorola Solutions Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), today announced a grant to RESOLVE to help expand the Solutions for Hope platform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Colombia and other countries.

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Energy Shift: Proactive Collaboration for the Future of Energy

Energy Shift is a new initiative of the RESOLVE Solutions Network, developed in cooperation with the Pembina institute, and Hoggard Films that aims to set the table for fruitful discourse between parties that are unaccustomed to listening to one another.

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RESOLVE featured in Intel’s In Pursuit of Conflict-Free Campaign

RESOLVE has been working with Intel and others over the last 5 years to achieve ethical, conflict free supply chains for minerals. RESOLVE is a featured organization in Intel’s In Pursuit of Conflict-Free campaign.

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Changing Climate Means Changing Business

RESOLVE Strategic Partner Amy Larkin is Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Climate Change and author of Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy

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Supply Chain Transparency + Resource Diplomacy

What can Tiffany, Apple, and Motorola Solutions do to create peace?

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Beta-testing our New Guidebook on Community Health and Shale Development

On Wednesday, August 6, I gave a webinar presentation introducing over 60 members of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) to our draft Community Health and Shale Development Guidebook.

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Engaging the Community and Health Care Providers to Help Prioritize the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources

The H1N1 pandemic of 2009-2010 has resurfaced in the news lately. A recent article in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine finds that adult patients treated with drugs such as Tamiflu or Relenza (or similar) were half as likely to die compared to those who went untreated.

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Webinar on Joint Fact Finding for Energy Resources Issues

Sixteen participants – representing industry, government, NGOs, and academia – learned about RESOLVE’s work from Stephen Courtney, Director of Collaborative Science; Paul De Morgan, Senior Mediator; and Dana Goodson, Senior Facilitator.

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Launching the Sustainability Standards Partnership

RESOLVE has launched the Sustainability Standards Partnership (SSP) to help identify, improve and promote the most credible and effective voluntary sustainability standards and disclosure tools in the marketplace.

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RESOLVE Senior Advisor receives award for environmental protection through conflict resolution

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) has just selected RESOLVE Senior Advisor John Jostes to receive the 2013 Sharon M. Pickett Award for Environmental Protection through Conflict Resolution.

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WEF Responsible Minerals Development Initiative Report

The World Economic Forum council on responsible natural resource management has zeroed in on the issue of how to unlock value with regard to mineral development.

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RESOLVE Launches Second Phase of Forum on Food Safety

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation jointly fund our Collaborative Food Safety Forum (CFSF).

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