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Afghanistan: Taliban Bans Drug Cultivation, Including Lucrative Opium

Apr 3, 2022 | Reuters

The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer. The order said the production, use…

Gaza Coming Water Crisis Worse Than Anything Yet?

Apr 2, 2022 | Ramzy Baroud

It is important to keep in mind that the water crisis in Gaza has been ongoing for years, and every aspect of this protracted crisis…

Water: How Water Cooperation Can Provide Geopolitical Stability in MENA

Apr 2, 2022 | Maghie Ghali, Al Jazeera

In the coming years, it is thought that water will become a more important geopolitical resource than crude oil with demand set to rise more…

Defence Diplomacy as a Tool to Cope with the Climate Crisis

Mar 31, 2022 | S. Nanthini

The recently published Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has highlighted significant increases in extreme weather events, which are likely to lead to…

A Closer Look at the Intersection of Gender and Security

Mar 31, 2022 | Deseri Tsepetis

While there has been progress in advancing civil rights and visibility for women and transgender folks, there is a long way to go to build…

The Key to Climate Action and Sustainable Peace? Women’s Full and Equal Participation

Mar 31, 2022

Climate change is not gender neutral, and for activist Fatima Muriel, this fact is all too real for thousands of women in her home country, Colombia. 

In…

Climate Change: US Needs Better Climate Forecasting, Wargaming, Report Finds

Mar 31, 2022 | Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One

The Biden administration should invest in better climate forecasting technology and ensure climate change is factored into military planning and wargaming, according to a scorecard…

DRC: Congo Halts Court Case against China Moly to Resolve Tenke Mine Dispute

Mar 31, 2022 | Mining Technology

Congo’s state miner Gecamines has suspended its court case against China Molybdenum’s (CMOC) Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine (TFM) in the country, reported mining.com.…

Ukraine: Russian Soldiers Leave Chernobyl over Radiation Exposure Fears

Mar 31, 2022 | Associated Press

Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and began leaving the heavily contaminated site more than a month…

West Philippine Sea: Group: Transform WPS into a ‘Marine Peace Park’

Mar 31, 2022 | Jonathan L. Mayuga, Business Mirror

Amid the growing tension and threat of maritime conflict over the West Philippine Sea (WPS), environmental activist group Kalikasan-People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) renewed…

Feminist Courage for Environmental Peace

Mar 30, 2022 | Ilse Wermink, Christina Vetter, and Brittany Roser

Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the…

Colombia: Colombia Cocoa’s Peaceful Transition to Global Prominence

Mar 30, 2022 | Anthony Myers, ConfectionaryNews

ConfectioneryNews talked to Jose Puyana, ProColombia's Regional Director for Europe, ahead of a Trade Mission to the UK (31 March to 3 April) to attend…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Tells Kurdistan to Move Oil Assets to New Company

Mar 30, 2022 | Khalid Al Ansary, Bloomberg

Iraq’s government has told Kurdistan to transfer its oil and gas activities to a new company ahead of Baghdad’s takeover of the region’s operations, according…

Ethiopia/Sudan: New Consultations over Nile Dam Inspire Optimism in Sudan

Mar 30, 2022 | Mohamed Saied

Sudan has recently expressed optimism about resolving the dispute over the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as Ethiopia prepares for the third filling of…

What Do We Know about Climate Change, Peace and Conflict?

Mar 29, 2022 | Tobias Ide

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world-leading body assessing scientific evidence on climate change. Researchers criticised the previous 2007 and 2014 versions of the…

Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse Than Anything We Have Ever Seen

Mar 29, 2022 | Ramzy Baroud

According to Amnesty International, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank consume, on average, 73 liters of water a day, per person. Compare this to an…

How Water Crisis Impacts the Ukraine Conflict

Mar 29, 2022 | Ashok Swain

Though the water war catchphrase is often used in public discourse to hype up the issue of water scarcity, the correlation between water and war…

Iraq’s Climate Change Response: The Private Sector and Civil Society

Mar 29, 2022 | Maha Yassin

In recent years, Iraq has been severely affected by climate change, with heat waves of above 50˚ C increasing in regularity. Climate change has had…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: China Expands Its Influence in Horn of Africa, Overlooks Dispute over Nile Dam

Mar 29, 2022 | Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor

As China presents itself as a supporter of stability in the Horn of Africa, the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt and…

Ukraine: Wie der Krieg der Umwelt Schadet

Mar 29, 2022 | Joshua Beer

Neben dem menschlichen Leid in der Ukraine wirken Umweltfolgen nachrangig. Doch brennende Chemiefabriken und geflutete Bergwerke verseuchen Böden und Flüsse und bedrohen so die Gesundheit…

Ukraine: Ukrainian NGOs Raise Alarm over Shocking Environmental Crimes Caused by Russian Aggression

Mar 29, 2022 | Ecoaction

Marking thirty-four days since the beginning of the Russian invasion, experts and activists provided the first analysis of the war crimes against the environment on…

Afghanistan: Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever

Mar 29, 2022 | Christina Goldbaum and Yaqoob Akbary, New York Times

For more than six months, Afghanistan has been gripped by a devastating economic crisis that has wiped out incomes, sent food prices soaring and left…

Cold War Redux: How a Dam On The Nile Has Become an International Issue

Mar 28, 2022 | Richard Seifmanand and Claude Forthomme

The Nile has long been a point of contention between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan, with a history of past and present superpowers shifting allegiances at…

Responses to Putin’s War Risk Impeding International Cooperation on Climate

Mar 28, 2022 | Andrew Newton

Less than a month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict which has so far caused thousands of military and civilian deaths and forced…

Putin’s Environmental Crimes

Mar 28, 2022 | Natalia Boiarchuk and Kathleen Rogers

In the wake of thousands of deaths of civilians, including children, Russia’s ongoing environmental crimes in Ukraine may be viewed of minor importance given the enormity of…

Afghanistan: Afghan Opium Fields Bloom as Economy Wilts [Video]

Mar 28, 2022 | Al Jazeera

Afghanistan is the world's top opium producer. Up until recently, Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers said they would punish farmers, to curb production.

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdistan Has Energy Capacity to Help Europe, Says Iraqi Kurdish PM

Mar 28, 2022 | Maha El Dahan and Riham Alkousaa, Reuters

The Kurdish region of northern Iraq has the capacity to make up for at least some of the energy shortfall in Europe, Kurdish Prime Minister…

Climate Change: The Latest IPCC Report Has Implications for the Climate-Security Nexus

Mar 28, 2022 | Brigitte Hugh and Sofie Bliemel, Homeland Security Today

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), was published on February 28, 2022. The newest publication focuses on climate change impacts, adaptation,…

Climate Change/Ukraine/Russia: Russia’s War on Ukraine Upends Arctic Climate-Change Research

Mar 26, 2022 | Nidhi Subbaraman, Wall Street Journal

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has delayed or derailed international collaborations studying climate change in the Arctic, with many Western scientists and scientific organizations cutting ties…

Liberia: Actors Want Women’s Rights Mainstreamed in Agriculture, Land Sectors

Mar 26, 2022 | Varney Karmara

Stakeholders have agreed to mainstream gender equity and inclusion across the agriculture, land, and forestry sectors in Liberia.

The enforcement of gender policies across these sectors…