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Lebanon: Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for Environmental Peacebuilding and Organisational Development

Apr 3, 2023 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

GIZ’s model for success is a better life for everyone and purposeful tasks for its employees. For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für…

Switzerland: Senior Policy Advisor - Environment, Conflict, and Peace Unit, Geneva

Apr 3, 2023 | International Institute for Sustainable Development

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an award-winning independent think tank working to accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resource management, and…

Afghanistan: WASH Coordinator

Apr 3, 2023 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International was created in Afghanistan in 1980 at the time of Soviet Occupation and has been supporting Afghan people for 38 years. SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL has…

Maynamr: Myanmar’s Largest Lake Is Threatened by Illegal Gold Mining

Apr 2, 2023 | Radio Free Asia

Gold mining is threatening wildlife living in and around Indawgyi lake, Myanmar’s largest natural lake and a UNESCO-designated wildlife sanctuary and world cultural heritage site.…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad, Kurds Close to Deal to Resume Iraq’s Northern Oil Exports

Apr 1, 2023 | Rowena Edwards, Ahmed Rasheed, and Orhan Coskun, Reuters

Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are close to striking a deal aimed at resuming northern oil exports, four sources familiar with…

Myanmar: Illegal Gold Mining Threatens Myanmar’s Largest Natural Lake [Video]

Apr 1, 2023 | Radio Free Asia

Aggressive and unregulated gold mining since Myanmar’s military coup two years ago has ravaged the land around Indawgyi Lake.

Colombia: Plunging Coca Prices Create ‘Humanitarian Emergency’ in Colombia

Mar 31, 2023 | Joshua Collins, Al Jazeera

Farmers in parts of Colombia say sales of coca, the raw ingredient used to make cocaine, have collapsed after a recent surge in production of…

Israeli-Arab Cooperation on Agriculture, Water, and Food Security Starts with Building on Existing Innovations

Mar 31, 2023 | Daniel B. Shapiro

The N7 Conference on Agriculture, Water, and Food Security—which I helped organize—convened in Abu Dhabi on March 14-16 with participants from each of the N7 countries:…

Climate Change: What Does the Sixth IPCC Synthesis Report Say about Climate Security and Peace?

Mar 30, 2023 | Sinéad Barry and Alexandra Steinkraus, Climate Diplomacy

The culmination of the IPCC Sixth Assessment cycle, the recently published synthesis report makes clear the contribution of climate change to global security.

Africa: Who Needs A Seat at the Climate Crisis Table? #AfricaClimateHope

Mar 30, 2023 | Melody Chironda

Africa is increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, with the most vulnerable populations being hit the hardest, resulting in food insecurity, displacement of populations,…

Environment Can Support the Peace Agenda

Mar 30, 2023 | Shabir Ahmad

In 2016 Global Witness reported that an average of four people is killed per week defending their land and their natural resources from commercial development.

The…

Powering Gender Equity: Women Entrepreneurs at the Forefront of Sustainable Energy Transition

Mar 29, 2023 | Sustainable Energy For All

In the framework of the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), together with ENERGIA International Network on Gender…

Liberia: The Illegal Turkish Loggers Depleting Liberia's Forest

Mar 29, 2023 | Mark B. Newa, The DayLight

Iraq: Water, Oil and Iraq’s Climate Future

Mar 29, 2023 | Zeinab Shuker, Middle East Research and Information Project

For 40 years, the Iraqi state has lurched from crisis to crisis as wars and domestic conflicts have devastated the country’s infrastructure and institutions. The…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil Firms Halt or Cut Output in Iraqi Kurdistan after Pipeline Closure

Mar 29, 2023 | Rowena Edwards, Reuters

Producers have shut in or reduced output at several oilfields in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq following a halt to the northern export…

Colombia: Indigenous Communities and Mennonite Colonies Clash in Colombia

Mar 29, 2023 | Natalia Brito, Mongabay

Satellite data and imagery visualized on Global Forest Watch show tree cover loss associated with large-scale agriculture and road-building occurring since 2015 in the area…

Water, Oil and Iraq’s Climate Future

Mar 29, 2023 | Zeinab Shuker

For 40 years, the Iraqi state has lurched from crisis to crisis as wars and domestic conflicts have devastated the country’s infrastructure and institutions. 

Over the…

Report: Mitigation of Seal-Fishery Conflict Requires Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

Mar 28, 2023 | Natural Resources Institute Finland

Mitigation of seal-fishery conflict requires a broad knowledge base and better understanding between key stakeholders, particularly between the coastal fisheries sector and conservation organizations. A…

Yemen: Groundwater Depletion and Possible Solutions

Mar 27, 2023 | Maha Al-Salehi, Holm Akhdar

Yemen is considered one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. Among the main threats which face the country’s water resources is groundwater depletion…

UN Warns of Water Wars as 2 Billion People Lack Clean Water with Africa & Middle East Hardest Hit [Video]

Mar 27, 2023 | Democracy Now!

A new report by the United Nations warns that a quarter of humanity lacks access to safe drinking water, and nearly half of the global…

Liberia: Permit Shows FDA Boss Approved Illegal Timber Exports

Mar 27, 2023 | James Harding Giahyue, The DayLight

Commenting at an international forest and climate conference in January, the Managing Director of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) Mike Doryen blamed loggers and villagers for certain…

Risk-Informed Water Governance, a Critical Tool to Avert Hunger and Conflict

Mar 27, 2023 | Emma Whitaker

To build resilience to water insecurity among vulnerable communities in Eastern Africa and beyond, research from the adelphi-WFP Climate Adaptation Learning Facility has identified the…

DRC/Rwanda: Kinshasa Says Kigali Is Plundering Its Resources

Mar 26, 2023 | Financial Times

The Democratic Republic of Congo said it was losing almost $1bn a year in minerals that were being illegally smuggled into Rwanda, as it restated…

How Pangani Villagers Push for Gender and Climate Justice

Mar 26, 2023 | Ramadhani Ismail

Globally, women and children remain the biggest sufferers when it comes to climate change. The numbers double and triple in second and third world countries,…

Liberia: FDA Says It Issued ‘Tens’ of Permits outside Legal System

Mar 24, 2023 | James Harding Giahyue, The DayLight

The Forestry Development Authority said it has issued “tens” of export permits outside Liberia’s log-tracking system. The DayLight has requested access to all of the…

Sudan/South Sudan/Abyei: UN Helps Broker Accord between Warring Communities in Abyei

Mar 24, 2023 | Xinhua

Two communities, whose fighting over rights in a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan, have reached a peace accord under the auspices of the…

EU's New Critical Raw Materials Act Could Be a Recipe for Conflict

Mar 24, 2023 | Larisa Stanciu, Lotte Hoex

Last week, the European Commission unveiled the Critical Raw Materials Act to reduce its dependence on third countries for key raw materials deemed indispensable for the green…

Iraq: Corruption, Deep Disparity Mark Iraq’s Oil Legacy post-2003

Mar 23, 2023 | Samya Kullab, Associated Press

For Iraq’s poorest, evidence of the country’s monumental oil wealth is inescapable. So is the knowledge that very little of it trickles down to them.

Remote: Forest and Biodiversity Specialist

Mar 23, 2023 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

FAO Afghanistan is investing, across all 34 provinces, in resilience reinforcing actions that focus on protecting agriculture livelihoods and local ecosystems, boosting local production of…

Congo-Kinshasa: Goma - Monusco Supports the Project "Women Elders and Ambassadors for Peacebuilding"

Mar 22, 2023 | Marylene Seguy, All Africa

The consortium of women's organizations in North Kivu launched the "Women Elders and Ambassadors for Peacebuilding" project on Friday, March 17 in Goma, North Kivu.This…