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43 SAIS Rev. Int'l Aff. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/susrwoil43 and id is 1 raw text is: Letter from the Editors Plan(et) A: Addressing the Climate Crisis The SAIS Review Editorial Board Human-driven climate change poses a continual and existential threat to our planet. This crisis disproportionately impacts developing nations and indigenous populations and inhibits human and economic development around the world. Annually, climate change-induced extreme weather events take thousands of lives, displace millions, and destabilize governments. These challenges have reached new heights in recent years as historic flooding in Nigeria and Pakistan uprooted tens of millions; devastating wildfires engulfed Greece, Italy, and Spain; and melting glaciers precipitously elevated global sea levels, threatening to erase coastal populations and small island nations. Less than two years ago marked the end of the world's warmest decade on record. From widespread economic insecurity to exacerbated military conflicts, the climate crisis poses intersectional, unabating threats to world peace and stabil- ity. Despite these momentous challenges set before our generation, the editors of the SAIS Review of International Affairs remain optimistic. Our optimism is abundant as Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) enters its 80th year and a new building at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC during the Summer of 2023. Writing for the SAIS Review in Autumn 1963, SAIS Professor Paul Linebarger characterized the creation of our school twenty years prior as persisting on the basis of nothing but a little money, a lot of hope, and enor- mous talent:' In the six decades since his writing, SAIS has cultivated count- less students prepared to meet the United States' and the world's most pressing challenges, outlined each year in the pages of the SAIS Review. This edition of the SAIS Review of International Affairs has the bittersweet distinction of being the last edition published from our office in 1619 Mas- sachusetts Avenue, and the first dedicated entirely to assessing the impacts of climate change and practical policy solutions to address its root causes. Plan(et) A: Addressing the Climate Crisis explores the intersectionality of climate change with major global trends and challenges including energy, financial systems, governance, injustice, and state sovereignty. The issue begins with Anne Andreassen and Connemara Doran, who analyze the negative impact of climate change on electrical grid resilience using the 2021 Texas polar vortex as a case study, weather data, and data on SAIS Review vol. 43 no. 1 (Winter-Spring 2023) © 2023 Johns Hopkins University 1