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Kenya: Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding Officer
Jul 10, 2022
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…
Lebanon: Strategic Lead, Climate and Resilience
Jul 10, 2022
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The IFRC is the world’s largest humanitarian network, comprising 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies working to save lives, build community resilience, strengthen…
Papua New Guinea: Electrical Engineer (Energy)
Jul 10, 2022
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United Nations Office for Project Services
UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our…
USA: Consultant, Climate Change and Conflict Specialist
Jul 10, 2022
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World Bank
The World Bank Group is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries. They intend to go further in helping countries reduce poverty…
Kenya: Global Climate and Environmental Mitigation Advisor
Jul 10, 2022
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Danish Refugee Council
Danish Refugee Council is a private Danish humanitarian nonprofit organization, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations.
Climate change increasingly…
War Scars the Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, Not Harm
Jul 9, 2022
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Kathy Kelly and Matt Gannon, LAP Progressive
No War 2022, July 8 – 10, hosted by World BEYOND War, will consider major and growing threats faced in today’s world. Emphasizing “Resistance and…
Myanmar: Junta Calls for Hydropower Investors
Jul 8, 2022
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Myanmar Now
The junta simultaneously opened bidding on six hydropower projects throughout the country on Tuesday in an attempt to expand the sector, which has been long…
Afghanistan: FAO Intensifies Support to Most Vulnerable Smallholder Farmers Affected by Drought and Earthquake
Jul 8, 2022
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is further stepping up efforts to boost food security and support for agriculture-based livelihoods of…
Colombia: Colombian Government Issues Guidelines for Blockchain Projects
Jul 8, 2022
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Abdulkarim Abdulwahab, CoinQuora
More governments are introducing blockchain technology into projects where transparency and decentralization matter. The Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MINTC) of Colombia has issued…
Climate Change: Geoff Dabelko Sees Opportunity and Collaboration in Complex Nature of Climate Crises
Jul 8, 2022
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Tosha Jupiter, Ohio University
Ohio University Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service professor Geoff Dabelko has spent most of his summer on the road collaborating with international and…
Netherlands: Post-Doctoral Position for ERC Project: Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals
Jul 8, 2022
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International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
ISS is looking for 1 Post-Doctoral Fellow on China’s resource-based industrial strategy. The objective is to offer a unique opportunity to create a team who…
Afghanistan: How Isolating the Afghan Taliban Could Mean More Young Landmine Victims
Jul 7, 2022
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Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Reuters
The Taliban's return to power last summer, ending their 20-year insurgency, should have helped de-mining efforts, with swathes of territory that were off-limits during the…
DRC: End Violations Associated with Conflict in Mineral-Rich Eastern DRC
Jul 7, 2022
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Demas Kiprono, The Standard
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently joined the East African Community (EAC). Soon after, the EAC member states met in Kenya to address conflict…
Convergence of Conflicts, COVID and Climate Crises, Jeopardize Global Goals
Jul 7, 2022
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United Nations
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 reveals that the convergence of increased fighting, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the long-term climate crisis, could push an additional 75 to…
How Green Can Ukraine’s Recovery Really Be?
Jul 7, 2022
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Michelle Langrand
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, there have been over 580 disruptions in industrial and infrastructure facilities, according to figures by the Geneva-based Zoi…
UK/Netherlands: Climate and Peacebuilding Advisor
Jul 7, 2022
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International Alert
International Alert is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our global team as Climate and Peacebuilding Advisor. This comes at an exciting time for…
We Built an Algorithm to Predict How Climate Change Will Affect Future Conflict in the Horn of Africa: Here’s What We Found
Jul 6, 2022
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Jannis Hoch, Niko Wanders, and Sophie de Bruin
The Horn of Africa, on the eastern coast of the continent, is currently being battered by an intense and sustained drought thanks to which around 20 million people…
For Somalia, Nature Is Key to Lasting Peace: UN Expert
Jul 6, 2022
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UN Environment Programme
Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded…
Ukraine/Russia: Switzerland Resists Ukrainian Plan to Seize Frozen Russian Assets
Jul 5, 2022
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Patrick Wintour, Guardian
Ukrainian plans to seize as much as $500bn (£418bn) in frozen Russian assets to fund the country’s recovery have met firm resistance from Switzerland, the…
Exploring Climate Security: Why Bad Outcomes Occur in Some Places and Not Others
Jul 5, 2022
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Josh Busby
Global disaster risk reduction world provides a hopeful sign. Optimists tout that despite large and increasing numbers of people living in harm’s way to climate-related…
Ukraine: UN Warns of Toxic Environmental Legacy for Ukraine, Region
Jul 4, 2022
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UN Environment Programme
Preliminary monitoring of the conflict in Ukraine points to significant impacts on urban and rural environments that could leave the country and region with a…
Liberia: ActionAid Liberia, Partners Launch Project for over 3000 Women
Jul 4, 2022
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Lincoln G. Peters and Winston W. Parley, New Dawn
Ahead of the 2023 presidential and legislative elections, ActionAid Liberia with funding from the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNBPF) a project named 'Strengthening the Agency…
Kenya: 'The Conflict Takes Two Forms': How Worsening Droughts Are Fuelling Tensions in Kenya
Jul 4, 2022
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Orla Dwyer, TheJournal.ie
The Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission has often warned that “our children will be waging wars over water and food if we do not…
Ukraine: On the Front Lines, Ukrainian Women Are Often the First Responders
Jul 3, 2022
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Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk
Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Nile Dispute Absent from First Peace Conference Led by China to Settle Conflicts in Horn of Africa
Jul 2, 2022
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Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor
China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa Xue Bing has recently offered to mediate in the turbulent region’s conflicts, as Beijing seeks to…
Colombia: Government of Colombia Set to Utilize XRPL Blockchain for Land Registry
Jul 1, 2022
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Crypto News BTC
After a yr of labor, Ripple companion Peersyst Know-how, a Barcelona-based software program improvement agency, has introduced the launch of Colombia’s first Nationwide Land Registry…
Ukraine: Plans to Rebuild Ukraine Should Address Environment, EU Commissioner Says
Jul 1, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Plans to rebuild Ukraine will need to address restoring the country's war-torn ecosystems, the EU Commissioner for the Environment has said. Virginijus Sinkevicius warned the…
Ukraine/Russia: Shredded Trees, Dead Dolphins and Wildfires — How Russia's Invasion Is Hurting Nature
Jul 1, 2022
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Nathan Rott, Claire Harbage, and Hanna Palamarenko, NPR
The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine, a government agency, has documented more than 300 cases of what it calls "environmental crimes," carried out by Russia…
Empowering Women Aids Climate Resilience
Jun 30, 2022
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Nina Jeffs, Zainab Yunusa
The overturning of constitutional rights to abortion by the United States Supreme Court is the latest blow in a worldwide rollback of protections for gender…
Libya: US Libya Envoy Warns: Don't Use Oil as a Weapon
Jun 29, 2022
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New Arab
The United States' ambassador to Libya warned rival actors Wednesday against using the country's oil wealth as a political "weapon," amid an internal blockade that…