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At D+C/E+Z, we are proud of our international network of authors. It is particularly important to us to be a platform for voices from the global south. Some authors contribute on a regular basis, others don't. Here you can find information about the people behind the contributions.

Katie Cashman

kcashman23@gmail.com

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in spring of 2022. She is a project coordinator and climate policy associate with the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA). The views she expresses in D+C/E+Z are hers, not those of the MCEA.  

All articles of Katie Cashman

Extreme weather
Katie Cashman

USA increasingly hit by weather-related disasters

North America’s wildfires, heatwaves, storms and floods are becoming more frequent, more dangerous and more costly

USA
Katie Cashman

The US needs to build back better

President Joe Biden so far has failed to get Congress to pass important climate policies

Democracy
Katie Cashman
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Looming minority rule in the USA

Joe Biden’s global influence is diminished by an unrepresentative Senate

Biden administration
Katie Cashman

Biden is respoding to climate activists

How demands for a Green New Deals are inspiring White House policymaking

USA
Katie Cashman

Scaling up the USA’s climate ambitions

US President Joe Biden is eager to reassert his country’s leadership, including in the response to global warming

Urban master plans
Katie Cashman

UN-Habitat provides advice on how to design liveable cities

What difference successful urban master plans make

Climate action
Katie Cashman
Waldo Soto Bruna
Luis Cisternas

Covid-19 and the climate crisis are linked

Handled in a good way, crises can help to improve humankind’s resilience

Infrastructure
Katie Cashman

Build back better

IEA wants stimulus money to drive climate protection

Water crisis
Katie Cashman

Parched and privatised

Chile faces serious water shortages due to the climate crisis

Mass protests
Katie Cashman

The people want to live in peace and dignity

In Chile and Bolivia, protests are driven by social exclusion and excessive inequality

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The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

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