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How to Advance Peace and Security Through a Climate and Gender Lens? Reflections From Youth at the UN Women’s GEN-Forum 2024

Jun 25, 2024 | Clare Steiner & Khaing Su Lwin

The unfolding triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in the Asia-Pacific region has critical implications for human security, conflict, and inequality. Climate…

How to Make Locally Led Climate Adaptation Finance More Gender Responsive

Jun 25, 2024 | Ntezi Mbabazi & Rose Pinnington

Northern donors are making efforts to fund local actors more directly and enable greater local leadership, notably within climate adaptation programming aiming to promote gender equality. And…

Barriers to the Engagement of Women in UN Peace Operations

Jun 24, 2024 | Eleanor Gordon

Women’s meaningful participation in peace operations is critical to building sustainable peace. Yet, women continue to be marginalised, especially in senior roles, because of organisational,…

Flowing Together: Peace and Conflict’s Role in Socio-Hydrology

Jun 24, 2024 | Stefan Doring, Kyungmee Kim, and Ashok Swain

In an era where water scarcity and disputes over water rights increasingly shape global politics, understanding the nexus between water and peace is more critical…

Wars Cause Widespread Pollution and Environmental Damage − Here’s How to Address It in Peace Accords

Jun 23, 2024 | Richard Marcantonio and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez

Few agreements include environmental provisions, and even fewer see them carried out, even though research shows that many drivers of conflict can be directly or…

“Now What?” Addressing the Climate-Gender-Security Nexus at NATO

Jun 20, 2024 | Siena Cicarelli and Cori Fleser

At the 2021 Brussels Summit, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) endorsed its first-ever Climate Change and Security Action Plan, with the aim to “mainstream…

The Hidden Crisis of Lake Chad: How Environmental Degradation Fuels Boko Haram

Jun 20, 2024 | Eleonora Cammarano

Situated in Central Africa, Lake Chad was once a flourishing freshwater reservoir that sustained the lives of more than 30 million people across Chad, Cameroon,…

Risks and Restoration: Land as a Driver of Conflict and Cooperation

Jun 19, 2024 | Beatrice Mosello and Mary Potts

Land is crucial to people’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing, culture and identity. So disputes over access to or use of land are a prominent feature…

Climate Change, Conflict, and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region

Jun 18, 2024 | Zeina Moneer

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the world’s most gender unequal regions; it will take an estimated 140 years for MENA countries to establish parity…

Counting the Climate Costs of Warfare

Jun 14, 2024 | Evan George

There are calls for nations to disclose their military-related greenhouse gas emissions as researchers try to tally the climate impacts of war in Ukraine and…

Global Rush for Farmland Could Trigger World War, Documentary Argues

Jun 14, 2024 | Saul Elbein

A global network of powerful entities, fueled in part by Wall Street, is buying up land and water around the world. This global land rush…

$8.6 Million Grant Approved to Boost Non-Oil Revenue in South Sudan

Jun 13, 2024 | Radio Tamazuj

The management of the African Development Bank Group has approved a grant funding of $8.6 million to South Sudan to advance the second phase of…

Low-Income Countries Host 75% of EJAtlas' Environmental Conflicts

Jun 12, 2024 | Mirage

The Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas), created by researchers at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), has documented…

Conflict, Climate, and Hunger: The Dynamics of Food Insecurity in Nigeria

Jun 12, 2024 | Oladosu Adebola Oluwaseun

Food insecurity remains a pressing issue in Nigeria, a country with significant agricultural potential yet plagued by various socio-economic challenges. Despite efforts to achieve food…

With Oil Exports Disrupted, What Lies Ahead for South Sudan?

Jun 12, 2024 | Alan Boswell and Edmund Yakani

In this episode of The Horn, Alan talks with Edmund Yakani, executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, about South Sudan's widening fiscal…

Colombia Land Invasion: Thousands Face Eviction for Illegal Occupation [Video]

Jun 12, 2024 | Al Jazeera

Wooden shacks cover the 378 hectares of the Santa Helena ranch, currently Colombia’s largest land invasion. In the past two months, about 7,000 families have…

Climate Change and Gender Roles: Women’s Active Role in Adaptation

Jun 12, 2024 | Sarah B. Barnes

“The success or failure of any adaptation strategy or action highly depends on the understanding of the capacities of a community or an individual to…

Tsavo's Guardians Get Lessons on Quelling Human-Wildlife Conflict

Jun 11, 2024 | Amos Kiarie

For years, cases of human-wildlife conflict have plagued the communities living around Tsavo National Park, primarily due to high human populations and incompatible land use…

30,000 Acres of Poppy Farms Demolished in N. Afghanistan

Jun 11, 2024 | Xinhua

Afghanistan's counter-narcotics police have wiped out over 30,000 acres of poppy farms in northern Badakhshan province over the past three months, a local official said…

USAID's Climate Strategy in Action: Colombian Youth Committed to Environmental Leadership and Conservation

Jun 11, 2024 | Andrea Arias and Sonia Borja

Colombia is home to 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity and has the eighth largest forest area globally. Its forests and wetlands not only sustain the…

Armenian Land Mines Prevent Peace with Azerbaijan

Jun 10, 2024 | Mordechai Kedar

US President Joe Biden dreams of peace in the South Caucasus. Unfortunately, due to the presence of land mines throughout the Karabakh region, peace remains…

Climate Security and Europe’s Greens: A Match Made in Political Heaven?

Jun 10, 2024 | Peter Schwartzstein

When Luxembourg’s Green Party was offered the defense portfolio in coalition talks after performing strongly in the country’s 2019 elections, its senior members faced a…

The Critical Role of Gender Equality in Climate Change: Empowering Women to Heal the Planet

Jun 10, 2024 | Daniel Salvador

The rain had been relentless. It washed away the fragile soil that Mariam depended on for her crops, her only means of feeding her children.…

Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine: May Review

Jun 9, 2024 | Alexei Ovchinnikov

On 11-12 June, Berlin will host an international conference on issues connected with the reconstruction of Ukraine. The goal of the summit is to attract…

Ecopoliticide: The Strategic Murder of Environmental Activists Is a Fundamental Threat to Human and Environmental Security

Jun 8, 2024 | Delon Omrow and Peter Stoett

“Ecopoliticide” provides a conceptual framework for exploring how acts of campaigning, protesting, and resisting against ecocide lead to various forms of retribution. To illuminate this…

How Setting Gender-Sensitive Targets Can Boost Climate Action

Jun 5, 2024 | EIGE

Climate change affects everyone, but not equally. Women are often disproportionately affected by it, in particular single mothers, single women, women with disabilities and elderly…

Breaking Gendered Barriers: Exploring the Nexus Between Youth, Climate Change, Migration, and Gender

Jun 5, 2024 | Yasmina Benslimane

Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing issues of our time, triggering consequences that reverberate across all borders. As the planet's climate continues to…

"Our Land. Our Future”: A Call to Action for National Stewardship in Land Restoration in Liberia

Jun 5, 2024 | Louis Kuukpen

Liberia's commitment to environmental protection is longstanding. Since the nation participated in the historic 1972 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm, Liberia has…

Oil in the Crosshairs: Environment, Peace, and Security Implications from the War in Sudan and Spillover Effects on South Sudan

Jun 4, 2024 | PAX

In this research blog PAX will provide a brief analysis of the political and environmental implications of the war on Sudanese and South Sudanese oil…

Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration: Does Gender Matter?

Jun 4, 2024 | Sharon S. Thawaney and Debosmita Sarkar

Marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Convention to Combat Desertification, this year’s World Environment Day is focusing on a related key pillar of…