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Episode 19: Six Years Later: An Exploration into the Syrian Civil War

Guest: Faysal Itani 

Faysal Itani, Resident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council,  joined CCWA for our first Foreign Policy Forum of the Fall 2017 season. After six years of armed conflict, 11 million refugees and internally displaced persons and almost 500,000 casualties in Syria, Itani explored what is currently happening on the ground in Syria, the effect of current U.S. policy on Syria and the region, and the future of Syria in a post-ISIS world.

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Know thyself: Advice for climate tech founders

Building a climate tech company is not for the faint-of-heart. No part of the process is easy; the tech is difficult, customers can be decidedly old-school, and regulation is often complex, for instance. And too…

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The Ad Hoc Gist: Is Winter Coming for Climate Tech?

Without some meaningful financial exits soon, I’m worried we’re heading for a climate tech winter. The planet can’t afford that. I wrote a three-part series for Latitude Media with my friend Michael Sachse on the...

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We need to rethink climate investing

For climate tech to scale, the collaboration between climate tech founders and capital providers will need  to change. It will need to be a durable — and dare we say, sustainable? — relationship, and one…

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