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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
CLimate Improvements through Modern Biotechnology (CLIMB) — A National Center for Bioengineering Solutions to Climate Change and Environmental Challenges

Summary Tackling pressing environmental challenges — such as climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental toxins and pollution — requires bold, novel approaches that can act at the scale and expediency needed…

05.19.22 | 11 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Putting Redlines in the Green: Economic Revitalization Through Innovative Neighborhood Markets

Summary The systemic effects of past redlining in more than 200 U.S. cities continue to persist. Redlining was a 20th-century policy that explicitly denied Black Americans the opportunity to secure federal mortgage…

05.16.22 | 11 min read
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Environment
day one project
Policy Memo
Establishing the AYA Research Institute: Increasing Data Capacity and Community Engagement for Environmental-Justice Tools

Summary Environmental justice (EJ) is a priority issue for the Biden Administration, yet the federal government lacks capacity to collect and maintain data needed to adequately identify and respond to…

05.03.22 | 6 min read
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Clean Energy
day one project
Policy Memo
Carbon Capture in the Industrial Sector: Addressing Training, Startups, and Risk

This memo is part of the Day One Project Early Career Science Policy Accelerator, a joint initiative between the Federation of American Scientists & the National Science Policy Network. Summary…

04.19.22 | 7 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
Amidst Nuclear Saber Rattling, New START Treaty Demonstrates Importance

Shortly after Russian military forces invaded Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin said that he had ordered Russian nuclear forces on high combat alert – apparently to deter the United States…

04.06.22 | 7 min read
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