Jeff Schlegelmilch

New York

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4 value propositions for climate action under Trump

Dec 3, 2024 | thehill.com | Amy Campbell |Jeff Schlegelmilch
Opinion - 4 value propositions for climate action under Trump

Dec 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Amy Campbell |Jeff Schlegelmilch

There’s no mincing words: The forthcoming transition of United States presidential administrations is sending shockwaves through the climate advocacy community. Many say that it highlights an almost definitive exponential increase in emissions. Carbon Brief suggests an additional 4 billion tons of emissions by 2030; the MIT technology review asserts this is an emissions trajectory we cannot afford.
A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives: Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short

Nov 7, 2024 | rand.org | Jason Michel |Jeff Schlegelmilch |Ellen P. Carlin |Jason Michel Etchegaray

Guest speakers Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin joined RAND's Disaster Management & Resilience Program for a discussion about their book, Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short. The authors examined 20 years of disasters from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic to show how flawed incentive structures make the world more vulnerable when catastrophe strikes.
A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives

Aug 28, 2024 | rand.org | Jeff Schlegelmilch |Ellen P. Carlin |Jason Michel Etchegaray

Event Details Date:September 26, 2024Time:2:00–3:00 p.m. EDTHow to Join:Details on attending the event will be sent to registered attendees. You will receive connection details via email. Program Despite the known dangers of earthquakes, infectious diseases, terrorist attacks, and many other kinds of disasters, we persistently witness a pattern of inadequate preparation and a failure to learn from experience.
100 million dead birds later, avian flu persists. Blame our policies.

Aug 8, 2024 | thehill.com | Ellen P. Carlin |Jeff Schlegelmilch

We are surpassing a grim historic milestone: more than 100 million chickens and turkeys dead or culled due to highly pathogenic avian influenza. Since the start of this outbreak in 2022, we have heard from many experts about the alarming ways that this strain of H5N1 in animals could be transmitted to people and cause a pandemic. We’ve also heard from the government that our agencies are relatively unalarmed: The outbreak in animals is under control, and the risk to the human population is low.
Jeff Schlegelmilch: We're not preparing for the inevitable megadisasters

Jul 26, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Jeff Schlegelmilch

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Opinion: ‘The big one’ disaster could happen in our lifetime. Can we even be ready?

Jul 19, 2024 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Jeff Schlegelmilch

Editor’s Note: Jeff Schlegelmilch is a research scholar and the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University. He is the author of “Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters” and co-author of “Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches To Disasters Keep Falling Short.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
‘The big one’ disaster could happen in our lifetime. Can we even be ready?

Jul 14, 2024 | msn.com | Jeff Schlegelmilch

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Opinion: ‘The big one’ disaster could happen in our lifetime. Can we even be ready?

Jul 14, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Jeff Schlegelmilch

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Opinion: ‘The big one’ disaster could happen in our lifetime. Can we be ready?

Jul 14, 2024 | cnn.com | Jeff Schlegelmilch

I was driving from my hotel room in Gaziantep, Turkey, to the Hatay region last fall, about eight months after the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that was one of the strongest temblors to hit the country in more than a century. I was expecting to see communities emerging from the rubble and rebuilding. I expected visible scars and a slow recovery, with some progress made and emerging areas of normalcy. But as we approached the epicenter of the damage, I realized this disaster was different.