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Championing Transparency and Civic Engagement Worldwide
Highlights of successful programs in Africa, Central America, and Eastern Europe The premise of open government is straightforward and impactful: […]
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Reduce Risk, Seize Opportunity
The challenge of reporting climate-related risks isn’t just surmountable—it’s an opportunity.
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- Climate
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Preparing for a Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack
Complex coordinated terrorist attacks (CCTAs) are exactly as the name implies: large-scale attacks that are multifaceted, well-planned, and often involve multiple perpetrators. Because of their size and complexity, these types of attacks far too often have a devastating impact across jurisdictions, disciplines, and even state lines.
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- Safety Security & Resilience
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Energy Efficiency – The Art of Measurement
Cadmus’ Hossein Haeri discusses the significant role that evaluation, measurement and verification (EM&V) experts have played in the growth of energy efficiency programs in the January 2018 issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
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- Energy
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Disclosing Financial Impacts of Climate Risk
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures calls for companies to expand their thinking and reporting on risks to include climate-related risks to business, operations, and financial conditions. Meeting this call poses a challenge and an opportunity.
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- Climate
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Five Actions to Effectively Achieve Your Company’s Climate Commitment
Given the backdrop of the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, more and more organizations are making ambitious public climate commitments.
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- Climate
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You’ve Committed to Setting a Science-Based GHG Reduction Target. Now What?
If you’re reading this, it’s likely because your organization has either joined the more than 300 other leading organizations around the world that have committed to setting a science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction target or are considering it.
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- Climate
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Embrace the Cyber Security-Physical Security Nexus
Most companies are aware of the critical importance of security. There’s a good chance that your company has a top-notch IT security team that has the firm’s IT resources locked down tight. They’ve implemented a best-in-class security infrastructure.
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Exercise Because of Want, Not Because of Need
For decades, governments have conducted emergency preparedness exercises as a method to evaluate the ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural and man made disasters. There is no doubt the tens of thousands of exercises conducted across the nation have improved the nation’s preparedness but, in order to tackle new and emerging threats, more must be done.
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Building an Emergency Management Baseline
Planning for catastrophic disasters is one of our greatest challenges. In some ways, it goes against our nature. We tend to plan and exercise for what we are capable of handling and hope we can scale up. We look to our immediate past history for future risk. I have heard from many disaster survivors and local officials, “I have lived here all my life, and I never knew it could be this bad.”
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- Safety Security & Resilience
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When Pandemic Management Meets Cybersecurity
When faced with a health crisis such as a pandemic, the primary objective is ensuring the health and well being of the public and finding the fastest and easiest method to limit the spread of disease and take care of those who are sick. Cyber threats can hinder public health efforts if mitigation steps are not taken and partners are not engaged before a pandemic or other public health crisis occurs.
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Planning for the Community vs. Planning for the Plan
Imagine a family losing their home, their belongings, everything. With nowhere to go, they find the nearest shelter, only to be turned away due to shelter restrictions. Maybe it was because they have a dog, or one of their children has a disability, or they have an elderly parent with them. Regardless of the reason, they are turned away. When planning for a community, that should never happen.
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- Safety Security & Resilience
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Virginia Airports Sustainability Management Plan
Cadmus led the first-ever statewide airport sustainability management plan The Virginia Department of Aviation (DOAV) serves the 66 public-use airports […]
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- Transportation