Q&A: Anna Stewart Ibarra on Emerging Environmental Threats
The executive director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) discusses efforts to address urgent risks.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on China and Latin America AQ: Can you describe the IAI’s work ASI: The IAI was created in 1992 by countries of the Americas to generate and share critical scientific information on environmental challenges like biodiversity loss and climate change that require cooperation and have cross-border causes and implications. We train and fund multinational research teams and then work to make sure that governments have this information to inform policies. AQ: What are some recent concrete successes ASI: We’ve helped develop...
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