Blogs & Opinions
The Complicated Relationship Between Climate, Conflict, and Gender in Mozambique
Feb 12, 2024
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Gracsious Maviza, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, Giulia Caroli, Thea Synnestvedt, and Joram Tarusarira
Individuals face immense challenges in displacement contexts, particularly where climate, conflict, and displacement intersect. In Mozambique, climate impacts have combined with conflict to displace nearly a…
What is the Eco-Gender Gap?
Feb 12, 2024
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Scarlett Stokes
The responsibility for saving the world from the ravages of climate change should not be a gendered issue. However, multiple studies have found that women,…
US Military’s Clean Energy Initiatives
Feb 9, 2024
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Simran Rathore
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has been fast-tracking clean energy advancements to bolster military safety, ensure energy security and cut cost. The US military’s efforts…
Why Gaza’s Dire Water Crisis Has Been Decades in the Making
Feb 8, 2024
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Yasmine Hafez and Marianne Dhenin
As early as 2017, Unicef estimated that 96 per cent of the water from Gaza’s sole aquifer was unfit for human consumption. Before Israel launched its Gaza…
Does Reporting Military Emissions Data Really Threaten National Security?
Feb 7, 2024
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Linsey Cottrell
Attention on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues continues to increase. In turn it is helping organisations understand and reduce their adverse impacts on ESG…
Peace Is Necessary to Give the Climate a Chance
Feb 6, 2024
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Sabine von Mering
Climate action and peace go together. We have known for some time that climate change is a threat multiplier and that there is a climate…
Weakened Infrastructure and Climate Change: The Threat to Water Security in Nineveh
Feb 6, 2024
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Nabaz Mohammed and Dylan O’Driscoll
The Iraqi agriculture sector employs roughly 20 percent of the country’s workforce. It is the second largest contributor to the gross domestic product after the oil…
Deconstructing Indian Discourses and Practices on Climate Change and Security
Feb 6, 2024
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Dhanasree Jayaram
India’s perspectives on climate security are usually characterized by its positions on the issue in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). While India has so…
Do We Have the Data to Realise Gender-Inclusive Climate Action
Feb 6, 2024
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Open Data Watch
The problem: Addressing climate change without inclusive data risks leaving behind the world’s most vulnerable, including women and girls. A closer look at gender-related data through…
Bridging the Global Gender Chasm in 2024: Need For More Steam?
Feb 3, 2024
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Arundhatie B. Kundal
A sluggish global economy and growing geopolitical tensions compounded by a looming climate crisis have erected multiple roadblocks that have thwarted concerted efforts to bridge…
From Gaza to Sudan, Conflict Is Driving a Rise in Hunger Worldwide
Feb 1, 2024
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Dylan Scott
In 2015, the UN set the ambitious goal of eliminating world hunger by 2030. Over the last decade, though, all that progress has started to…
Water: A Platform for Peace in the Tides of War
Feb 1, 2024
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Ellen Pokorny, Cécile Pillon Hue, and Katie Goldie-Ryder
Sabotaging civilians' access to water during an armed conflict is a war crime that violates international humanitarian law. Yet, many belligerent forces resort to using…
NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence to Open in Montréal: What Does It Mean for Canadian Security?
Feb 1, 2024
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Ryan Atkinson
This year Montréal is set to become the home for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s new Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE). The…
International Banking Projects and Restoring the Lower Dnipro’s Ecosystems
Jan 31, 2024
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Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Eugene Simonov
International development banks are extremely important participants in Ukraine’s recovery. It is important for civil society to engage in dialogue with them, and banks must…
Six Questions to Level Up Your Climate + Gender Strategies
Jan 30, 2024
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Natalie Shriber
A growing number of climate investors are recognizing that applying a gender lens can deepen their climate impact – and accelerate a just economic and climate…
Lessons to Advance Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Through Climate Action
Jan 29, 2024
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International Development Research Centre
Climate change remains one of the major challenges of our time, with countries in the Global South being the most affected. Emerging research shows that…
Gender Diversity and Trust Will Boost Climate Action in 2024
Jan 23, 2024
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Maria Mendiluce
I spent last week in the small mountain town of Davos along with global business leaders, politicians, academics and members of civil society who came…
Water, Corruption, and Security in Iran
Jan 23, 2024
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Eleanor Greenbaum
This past summer was the hottest on record, bringing devastating impacts to many global communities. Iran was one of many nations that faced both debilitating…
Environment and Security | Q&A with Editor in Chief, Ashok Swain
Jan 22, 2024
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Wilson Center
From Afghanistan, Nepal, and Libya to the Arctic, the new issue of Environment and Security takes a fresh look at emerging issues at the intersection…
The All-Male COP29 Committee is a Big Step Backwards for Climate
Jan 19, 2024
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Nella Canales, Isabelle Mallon, Laura Del Duca and Trevor Grizzell
The recent appointment of an all-men committee, with members linked to the country’s oil and gas industry, to organize this year’s Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan…
The Sahel: A Deadly New Era in the Decades-Long Conflict
Jan 17, 2024
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Héni Nsaibia
The central Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — all of which are now ruled by military juntas — are engulfed in a…
The Dynamics of Violence in Pursuit of Land in the Pan Amazon
Jan 17, 2024
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Timothy J. Killeen
The adage ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law’ is not legally true, but the concept reigns supreme on frontier landscapes in the Pan Amazon. Land…
From Mines to Vines: The Allies’ Path to Restoring Ukraine’s War-Scarred Terrain
Jan 16, 2024
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Armenak Ohanesian
Ukraine's fertile soil, known as chernozem, has underpinned generations of farmers; vast farmlands have long been Ukrainians’ pride. This agricultural prowess has not only fed…
Unpacking the Impact of the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Jan 14, 2024
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Wilson Center
In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Director Lauren Risi hosts three contributing authors of the international chapter of the recently released fifth National…
Gender Equality in Climate Leadership Can’t Wait
Jan 12, 2024
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Karen Stefiszyn and Robyn Camp
A record number of participants, and yet only 15 of the 133 world leaders present were women. A historic commitment to transition away from fossil…
10 Women Leading in the Fight Against Climate Change
Jan 10, 2024
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Christiana Jansen
Although women roughly make up half of the global population and are more vulnerable to climate change due to cultural, social, and economic factors, many women are leading the…
The Climate Costs of War and Militaries Can No Longer Be Ignored
Jan 9, 2024
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Doug Weir
Two decades of international analysis and debate over the relationship between climate change and security has focused on how our rapidly destabilising climate could undermine…
Conflict Minerals Compliance – New Twists for 2024
Jan 8, 2024
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Michael R. Littenberg, Austin Bohn, and Katherine Donohue
The next filing under the U.S. Conflict Minerals Rule is due on May 31, 2024. That filing will be for the 2023 calendar year. In…
The MENA Region Is Headed for More Insecurity Due to Climate Change. Can This Be Mitigated?
Jan 8, 2024
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Kyungmee Kim and Tània Ferré Garcia
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, home to widely diverse cultures and a population of about 500 million, is highly exposed to the…
On the Climate Crisis, We Are All Suffering, But Women from the South Are Suffering More
Jan 4, 2024
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Laila Hanifah
In the post-Cold War era, as the risk of major armed conflicts and wars between states declined, other threats of a non-war nature began to…