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Xi Jinping’s China and the International Nonprofit Community

By Mark Sidel

2022

Mark Muro

Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

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Mark MacCarthy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

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Mark Hall

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

J. Mark Iwry

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Visiting Scholar, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

**VIDEO AVAILABLE. CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE.**A giant hybrid sailboat has been created to reinforce the battle against plastic pollution in our oceans.Manta by SeaCleaners is the first-of-its-kind processing ship designed to collect, treat and repurpose large numbers of plastic debris floating in polluted waters, along the coasts, in estuaries, and in the mouths of large rivers.Relying primarily on renewable energy sources, the deep-sea vessel is eco-friendly and able to cross the oceans, intervening rapidly wherever it’s needed. Poised for launch in 2024, the Manta will operate autonomously 75% of the time without the use of fossil fuels, and it will have the ability to extract between 5,000 and 10,000 tons of floating plastic each year.Its design allows the Manta to extract microplastics from 10 mm upward and up to 1 meter deep. Depending on the density and closeness of the layers of waste, the catamaran can collect between 1 to 3 tons of waste each hour. Even more impressive, its hybrid abilities means that this catamaran can operate for up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Each boat is equipped with multiple collection systems, including a set of waste-collecting conveyor belts to bring the plastic from the ocean to the boat, three floatable systems to pick up surface waste, two smaller multipurpose collection rafts for shallower and narrower parts of the ocean that the larger catamaran can’t access, and two lateral cranes to pull larger pieces of debris from the water.According to the designers, led by the company’s founder Yvan Bourgnon, the first mission of the Manta will take place in Southeast Asia. After that, the Manta will operate in Africa and South America but will also intervene in temporarily polluted areas following climatic or natural disasters.The project is three years in the making and will mark the world’s only work boat capable of managing 100% of the plastic waste it collects. An onboard factory will he

Climate Change

Marking the decarbonization revolutions

David G. Victor and Ryan Hanna

Nature Thursday, June 3, 2021

English teacher Connie Bowen in the classroom at Ecole Saint-Landry, a French immersion charter school in Sunset. Monday, Jan. 10, 2022.Ecole St Landry 7252

Brown Center Chalkboard

Feedback on teacher evaluations misses the mark

Seth B. Hunter and Matthew G. Springer

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Joe Biden at desk

FixGov

Biden’s confirmations progress at the 300-day mark

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Marine One arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland as Air Force One waits on the tarmac for President Joe Biden.

International Affairs

Will COVID-19 mark the end of the old international order?

Thomas Wright and David Dollar

Monday, August 16, 2021

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens with other Cabinet members as U.S. President Joe Biden holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

FixGov

Biden’s confirmations progress at the 200-day mark

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Friday, August 13, 2021

Building a better world for all: A conversation with Mark Carney

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Mark Taylor

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

The National Defense Strategy and great power competition: A conversation with Mark T. Esper

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Britain's Secretary of State of Defence Ben Wallace after their meeting at Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Order from Chaos

How Mark Esper is navigating the coronavirus crisis

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mark the end of the post-Cold War era?

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST