Blogs & Opinions

Media and Climate Security: Mutual Miscomprehension?

Dec 1, 2022 | Peter Schwartzstein

There’s a scene near the climax of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express when Hercule Poirot starts to plot out the possible murderers. There’s…

Four Takeaways from the COP27 Climate Conference

Nov 29, 2022 | Tegan Blaine

The progress at COP27 — as well as the lack of it on some fronts — begs the question of how the global community can…

Environmental Peacebuilding Must Pay More Attention to Armed Groups

Nov 29, 2022 | Judith Verweijen

Environmental peacebuilding is a rapidly grow field of research and practice. It examines how addressing conflicts over natural resources and improving resource governance can serve…

Green Jobs for Women Can Combat the Climate Crisis and Boost Equality

Nov 29, 2022 | Franziska Deinninger and Ana Gren

Delegates returned home from COP27 with long to-do lists and a formidable challenge: how to accelerate development that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels and creates…

Fishing for Equity and Inclusion: Women’s Socioeconomic Factors in Kenyan Fisheries

Nov 29, 2022 | Margaret Gatonye

Seeing Loreta sort and dry her Omena sardines at the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, one may dismiss this small, middle-aged woman as…

The Case for Integrating Sustaining Peace into an Expanded Climate, Peace and Security Concept

Nov 23, 2022 | Cedric de Coning and Hafsa M. Maalim

One of the key themes that emerged from the just concluded COP27 is the recognition that climate change does not only exacerbate the causes and…

One Earth, One Security Space: From the 1972 Stockholm Conference to Stockholm+50 and Beyond

Nov 22, 2022 | David Michel

The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment marked a watershed in world environmental politics. Gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, the international community collectively recognized…

How to Avoid a New Cold War over Critical Minerals

Nov 22, 2022 | Cullen Hendrix

Will the 21st century be the century of the green great game? In the early 20th century, then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill oversaw…

Water Shortages Cause Conflicts across Africa

Nov 22, 2022 | Robin Scher

Water is a finite resource on our planet. We can only rely on what we have, which translates to about 2.5% of drinkable fresh water.…

Women Underrepresented at COP27 Summit

Nov 18, 2022 | Caroline Kapp

Advocates have expressed concern that women are underrepresented at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference—or COP27—in Egypt this month. In 2011, countries pledged to increase…

Natural resources and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace

Nov 17, 2022 | Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson

To build peace that is gender-just and sustainable, we need to start with two questions: What are the conditions of people’s lives at the end…

Tailoring Inclusive Solutions to Climate Finance: The Role of Individual and Collective Inclusion

Nov 17, 2022 | Manuel Bueno and Stephanie Landers Silva

Climate finance can and should be more inclusive of marginalized and underserved groups, including women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, low-income people, and people in remote areas.…

Environmental Peacebuilding Is Resolving Conflicts Caused by Climate Change

Nov 16, 2022 | Vartika

Environmental cooperation is increasingly being utilized to resolve local problems induced by global warming.  Environmental cooperation is increasingly being utilized to resolve local problems induced by global warming. Environmental…

Helping Asia-Pacific Women to Overcome Climate Disasters

Nov 14, 2022 | Sarah Knibbs, Dechen Tsering and Annamaria Oltorp

The disastrous floods in Pakistan have proven, yet again, that our climate crisis disproportionately hurts women. Of the 33 million people affected, nearly 70 per…

USAID's Best Practices for Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Work

Nov 14, 2022 | M. Mena

Gender inequality exacerbates the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, and it is a barrier to achieving climate change goals. However, we…

How Climate Discussions Connect to Security

Nov 14, 2022 | Homeland Security Today

Negotiations at COP27 will occur against a highly charged geopolitical landscape, given the Russian invasion of Ukraine and heightened competition between the United States and…

At COP27, 41 Grassroots Women’s Organizations Launch New Global South Alliance for Indigenous and Local Women and Girls

Nov 11, 2022 | Rights and Resources

SHARM-EL-SHEIKH (November 11, 2022) — On November 11 at CoP27, 41 grassroots women’s organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America launched a new advocacy network…

The Law of Treaties in Wartime: The Case of the Black Sea Grain Initiative

Nov 10, 2022 | Gregor Novak and Helmut Aust

The Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI) was in the spotlight recently following a nail-biting attempt by Russia to suspend its participation in one of UN Secretary-General Guterres’…

COP27: An Explainer for Peacebuilders

Nov 10, 2022 | Harriet Mackaill-Hill

COP is short for ‘Conference of the Parties’ and there are all kinds of COPs for various international agreements. But the term COP has come…

The Gender Imbalance at COP27

Nov 8, 2022 | Akanksha Khullar

Women have historically been underrepresented at the UN’s global conference on climate change, and this year’s COP 27 congregation in Egypt, was no exception. A…

Give More Women the Microphone at COP27

Nov 8, 2022 | Catherine McKenna and Amy Meyers Jaffe

Women are leading the climate revolution. At COP27, speakers should cede time to hear what they have to say.

In 2016, I (Catherine) was slated to…

Climate Crisis and Water Stress Create a Perfect Storm for Women: We Need Radical Collaborations for Gender-Just Climate Solutions

Nov 7, 2022 | Deepa Joshi, Mairi Dupar, Ranjitha Puskur, and Alan Nicol

Addressing global stakeholders now engaged in COP27, researchers from CGIAR and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network come together to call for radical collaborations to achieve climate justice for…

Accelerating Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture: Reaching Women Farmers in Uganda with Video Extension

Nov 7, 2022 | Moses Lule

Women play a vital role in agricultural production in low-income countries, but often lack the information needed to improve their agricultural practices. A recent dissemination…

COP27 Can Do More for Women Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change and Conflict

Nov 7, 2022 | Maëlle Salzinger and Sophie Desmidt

14 November will be ‘gender day’ at COP27. Could this be an opportunity to support women in the Sahel in their effort to tackle the…

Armed Conflict and Climate Change: How These Two Threats Play out in Africa

Nov 7, 2022 | Halvard Buhaug

The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, a 2015 treaty to keep global warming well below 2℃.…

Women are Leading the Restoration of the World’s Second Largest Tropical Rainforest - Here’s How

Nov 6, 2022 | Victoria Masterson

The Congo Rainforest in Africa is the second largest tropical rainforest in the world – but it could be completely gone within 80 years because…

Climate Change and Women: A Crisis Within a Crisis

Nov 6, 2022 | Sarthak Singhal

In addressing the urgent crisis of climate change, it is crucial to acknowledge the gender dimension of its impacts, and for that to be reflected…

Climate Change is a Gender Issue As Well as an Existential One

Nov 6, 2022 | Victoria McKenzie-Mcharg

The latest State of the Environment report was released last month and environment and water minister Tanya Plibersek said it was a “shocking document” that told “a…

Benefiting People and the Planet: Why We Must Prioritise Gender in Anti-Corruption and Climate Efforts

Nov 4, 2022 | Transparency Int'l

No matter what situation you find yourself in, gender* likely influences how you experience it.

The climate crisis, for example, will affect all of us in…

ITSCI is Unwilling to Address Failures of its Due Diligence Scheme - Companies Must Now Pressure it to Take Strong Action

Nov 4, 2022 | Global Witness

In April 2022 Global Witness published the detailed report The ITSCI laundromat - How a due diligence scheme appears to launder conflict minerals, uncovering the serious…