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EU’s Flawed Reliance on Audits, Certifications for Raw Materials Rules

May 24, 2023 | Human Rights Watch

The European Union’s effort to secure a sustainable and secure supply of minerals, including through the draft Critical Raw Materials Act, is increasingly relying on flawed…

Liberia’s Biological Diversity Is Its Economic Power Horse

May 23, 2023 | Stephen Rodriques

Liberia prides itself as a nation endowed with a substantial share of global biodiversity. The country is regarded as one of the biodiversity hotspots in…

Building Peace by Formalizing Gold Mining in the Central Sahel

May 23, 2023 | Jorden de Haan and Aly Diarra

The Central Sahel is increasingly deemed the new epicenter of terrorism, accounting for 35 percent of global terrorism deaths in 2021. Yet as the situation in…

Addressing the Converging Risks of Climate, Insecurity, and Migration in Central America

May 19, 2023 | Claire Doyle

The idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” has been gaining steam since it was first proposed roughly 15 years ago. This framing acknowledges…

Water Scarcity and Environmental Peacebuilding: A Lens on Southern Iraq

May 18, 2023 | Ali Al-Bayaa and Mostafa Mashhad

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are Iraq’s primary sources of water. However, both rivers originate in Turkey and flow through Syria before passing through Iraq.…

Intersectional Gender Equity Must Inform Efforts to Enhance Climate Security in Africa

May 16, 2023 | Marisa O. Ensor

The adverse consequences of climate change are being felt around the world, but nowhere more keenly than in Africa. While African nations are among the least responsible for…

Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan Worsens, With Disproportionate Impacts to Women and Girls

May 11, 2023

With over 600 people dead, 5,100 injured, approximately 730,000 displaced, and few health centers operational, the dire situation in Sudan is getting worse, with growing…

How Satellite Prevented a War for Water

May 11, 2023 | Robert Bell

Have you ever been really, really thirsty? Not just dry-mouthed in the middle of the night or longing for a cold drink after an afternoon…

Somalia's Women and Girls are Victims of Climate Change

May 11, 2023 | Amal Hassan

Hospitals are filled to capacity with shrieking children and worried mothers. Doctors are rushing, trying to save the lives of many, already knowing that they won’t be…

Green Spending and Gender

May 10, 2023 | Nigel Barber

Consumer spending fuels the global economy and is the biggest single cause of climate change. Much of that spending is discretionary, so changing consumption habits…

Is the Water War Imminent?

May 9, 2023 | M. A. Hossain

With the world’s population increasing and climate change worsening water scarcity, the likelihood of a global water war grows. Due to water being a finite…

Towards an Acceptable Accounting of Ukraine’s Post-War Environmental Damages

May 9, 2023 | Andriy Demydenko and Eugene Stakhiv

The Russian war has caused enormous environmental damage to Ukraine. How to estimate this damage in order to calculate the cost of recovery and reparations…

Equitable Resource Governance Helps Build Peace

May 9, 2023 | Karol Boudreaux and Daniel Abrahams

Across the Sahel, growing tensions between farmers and herders are more frequently spilling over into deadly clashes. Rapid population growth, along with the impacts of…

The Problem That Has No Name: Gender, Climate Migration, and the Case of Israel

May 3, 2023 | Hadas Cohen

Female climate refugees are doubly vulnerable, both to climate catastrophes back home and once on the road as refugees. Israel, which is expected to be…

Shifting the Power: Making a Difference Through Gender and Climate Activism

Apr 27, 2023 | Meg Keen

In this episode of Pacific Change Makers, Dr Meg Keen speaks with Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls in Suva, Fiji about social activism in the Pacific. Sharon is the Regional…

Mark Nevitt on “Can We Reconcile Clean Energy Goals with National Security?”

Apr 27, 2023 | Charlie Dunlap

In today’s post Mark Nevitt, Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, expertly addresses news reports about a supposed controversy between the Pentagon and…

China’s Climate Security Vulnerabilities

Apr 25, 2023 | Angus Soderberg

Climate change’s ripples reach every corner of the globe, but nowhere is their geopolitical impact more pronounced than in China’s relations with the United States.…

Water for Women, Women for Water

Apr 22, 2023 | Tinebeb Yohannes, The Reporter

Public opinion says Ethiopia has an abundance of water—the “water tower for Africa”. For many women in this country, this is becoming increasingly hard to…

The Environmental Legacy of Explosive Remnants of War

Apr 20, 2023 | Linsey Cottrell and Kristin Holme

The damage caused by armed conflicts extends beyond that caused by the fighting itself and weapons used. As well as the risk from serious injury…

Absorbing Climate Shocks and Easing Conflict in Kenya’s Rift Valley

Apr 20, 2023 | International Crisis Group

What’s new? A protracted drought in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating land use conflict in the north of Kenya’s Rift Valley region. Longstanding tensions between…

Armed Force Isn’t Saving Colombia’s Forests, but a New Effort Might

Apr 20, 2023 | Jeremy Moore and Jordon Mpingo

As Colombia struggles to establish effective governance, the state is trying to shift away from previous reliance on military force to curb deforestation, a strategy…

Empowering Women, Protecting the Earth

Apr 19, 2023 | UN Women

The climate crisis is not gender neutral.

As its impacts worsen, women and girls are experiencing unique and disproportionate harm—with the fallout amplifying existing gender inequalities. Typically…

Climate Security and Instability in the Bay of Bengal Region

Apr 19, 2023 | Sarang Shidore

The Bay of Bengal region faces many of the world’s deadliest cyclones, and warmer temperatures will enable storms to hold more moisture and cause more…

Q&A: Bridging Gender and Just Energy Transitions

Apr 18, 2023 | Johanna Lehtmets and Laura Del Duca

In recent years, several crises have emerged simultaneously, including the Covid-19 pandemic, extreme weather events and natural disasters, disruptions in supply chains, energy crises and…

Putting People at the Heart of Human-Wildlife Conflict: Outcomes of the International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence

Apr 18, 2023 | Mirali Shukla

Recently, the IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict & Coexistence Specialist Group and other partners co-hosted an International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence. The IUCN SSC guidelines of human-wildlife conflict…