Franco-American Battle French President Emmanuel Macron is stymieing agreement in Brussels on the EU’s trade negotiating mandate with the U.S. He wants to use it to force the Trump administration back into the Paris Agreement on climate change. Now the Trump administration is responding by stymieing Macron’s preferred policies for consensus agreement at the late-summer G7 meeting in Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is skipping this weekend’s planning session for that event and is instead sending a lower-level representative. The Trump administration is interested in the G7 focusing collectively on China but has little interest in the French host’s focus on inequality or environmen...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.