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Cuba/Nicaragua/Mexico: Cuba, Nicaragua & Mexico Lead World Gender Parity in Parliaments

Mar 5, 2022 | Kawsachun News

Latin America continues to lead over the rest of the world in parliamentary gender parity. Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexico have been ranked 2nd, 3rd and…

Yemen: Yemen's Houthis Agree UN Proposal to Offload Decaying Oil Tanker

Mar 5, 2022 | Reuters

Yemen's Houthi rebels have signed an agreement with the United Nations to deal with a decaying oil tanker threatening to spill 1.1m barrels of crude oil…

Conflict Resources: EU's Mega-Rich Found to Be Fuelling the Illegal 'Blood Timber' Trade

Mar 5, 2022 | Sarah Tekath, Euronews Green

As one of the most highly prized hardwoods in the world due to its finish and durability, teak is becoming increasingly popular with the mega-rich.…

Climate Finance and the Peace Dividend

Mar 4, 2022 | Catherine Wong

According to the OECD, countries receiving the least climate finance include not only the least developed, but also high-income countries in the Middle East and middle-income…

Review: The Army Climate Strategy and the Climate Security Plan for America

Mar 4, 2022 | Francesco Fmia and Caitlin Werrell

The U.S. Army released its first climate strategy on February 8, the first Service within the Department of Defense (DoD) to do so. This post summarizes and…

The Environmental Dimensions of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Mar 4, 2022 | Wilson Center

Today, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association published an open letter, signed by 902 individuals and 156 organizations from more than 75 countries, to express solidarity with the people…

USA: Summer 2022 Environmental Security Program Internship

Mar 4, 2022 | Stimson Center

The Stimson Center's Environmental Security Program explores the suite of environmental threats, both human and natural, that have the potential to undermine national, regional, or global security.…

Ukraine: Ukraine’s Nuclear Nightmare Is Only Part of the War’s Environmental Horrors

Mar 4, 2022 | Karl Mathiesen, Louise Guillot, and Antonia Zimmermann, Politico

Russia's attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant spread nuclear anxiety across the Continent. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent a warning early Friday “to all…

China/Vietnam/South China Sea: China Announces South China Sea Drills Close to Vietnam Coast

Mar 4, 2022 | Reuters

China is carrying out more than a week of military drills in the South China Sea in an area between its southern province of Hainan…

Activists Deplore the Human Toll and Environmental Devastation from Russia’s Unprovoked War of Aggression in Ukraine

Mar 4, 2022 | Katie Surma, Inside Climate News

Fears over environmental catastrophes are growing among humanitarian experts and environmental organizations as the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves into its second week.  On Friday,…

Tethering to Human Rights in the Pushes and Pulls of Human Mobility

Mar 3, 2022 | Jill Baggerman

We live in an era of mobility of ideas, money, and people, said Oli Brown, Associate Fellow at Chatham House. 

According to the World Bank’s Groundswell…

War Escalates Environmental Problems in Ukraine

Mar 3, 2022 | Teresa Bergen

Some Russians are concerned about the environmental effects of the war, too. Oleg Anisimov, head of the Russian delegation at a closed-door U.N. climate conference, apologized for…

Blockchain for Critical Minerals

Mar 3, 2022 | Michael J. Walsh, Jr., Eugenia Wang, and Kathleen E. Wegrzyn

The United States relies heavily on imports to satisfy its demand for critical minerals, and importers rely heavily on China for critical and rare earth…

Climate Change: Ukraine Is a Climate Story. Because Everything Is a Climate Story

Mar 3, 2022 | Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times

You know that scene in “The Matrix” where Keanu Reeves is offered a choice between ignorance and truth, in the form of a blue pill…

Myanmar: Hundreds of Tonnes of Illegal Timber Seized in Arakan State Last Month

Mar 3, 2022 | Burma News International

More than 540 tonnes of illegal timber were seized in Arakan State in February, according to figures from the state’s Forest Department. Timber seizures were…

Ukraine: Ukraine Is in an Environmental Crisis Too

Mar 3, 2022 | Gregory Barber and Matt Simon, Wired

In the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the ground has been behaving strangely. In some places, it is sinking; elsewhere it “heaves”—bulging upward, according to…

1000+ Environmental, Legal, and Peacebuilding Experts and Organizations Warn of Russian Invasion’s Environmental Costs

Mar 3, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Center for International Environmental Law

Fire at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant, Other Environmental Impacts Could Magnify Impacts on Human Rights and LivesIn an urgent open letter, more than 900 international law, environment,…

Egypt: The Russia-Ukraine War Has Turned Egypt's Food Crisis into an Existential Threat to the Economy

Mar 3, 2022 | Michaël Tanchum, Middle East Institute

With the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war on Feb. 24, 2022, Egypt's food security crisis now poses an existential threat to its economy. The fragile…

Ukraine: The Impact of Conflict in Ukraine on Global Food Security

Mar 3, 2022 | Gilbert F. Houngbo, International Fund for Agricultural Development

Conflict and hunger are closely intertwined -- when one escalates, the other usually follows. As in any crisis, it is the poorest and most vulnerable…

Afghanistan/China: Eye on Lithium: China Chats with Taliban about Accessing Afghan Lithium, Core flies on Tesla Tieup

Mar 2, 2022 | Stockhead

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has tweeted that Chinese companies are looking access Afghanistan’s lithium and copper deposits. China has had their…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: With World Attention on Ukraine, Nile Dam Conflict Escalates

Mar 2, 2022 | Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor

It seems international momentum to solve the dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa's start of operation of its giant and controversial hydroelectric…

Hydropolitics in the Russian – Ukrainian Conflict

Mar 1, 2022 | Mehmet Altingoz and Saleem Ali

It’s telling that one of the first actions that Russian forces took in their invasion of Ukraine was to blow up a dam on the North Crimean…

The Compounding Crises of the Pandemic, Climate Change, and Ukraine

Mar 1, 2022 | Alexander Verbeek

As Eisenhower could have told you, if you continue to prioritize the urgent above the important, most of your essential tasks will ultimately end in…

Explainer: Why Women Need to be at the Heart of Climate Action

Mar 1, 2022

Those who are most affected by climate change today–women, girls and marginalised communities–must be involved in the design and implementation of climate response actions to…

Ukraine: Environmental Organisations Call upon UN and Member States to Act on Ukraine

Mar 1, 2022 | PAX

The Russian invasion in Ukraine coincided with the start of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi where Member States gather to discuss the world’s…

Opportunity to Sign an Open Letter on the Environmental Dimensions of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Feb 28, 2022 | Carl Bruch and Carroll Muffett

Are you concerned about Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Would you like to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine?  Please add your voice to the…

Dire UN Report Warns of Conflicts Worsened by Climate Change

Feb 28, 2022 | Ja'han Jones

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts assembled by the U.N. to represent 195 governments, said in its report Monday that “climate change has caused…

A Shift to Clean Energy Would Halt Russia's Petro-Thuggery and More

Feb 28, 2022 | Jonathan Overpeck

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is putting 44 million innocent lives in danger and threatening the sovereignty of a democratically governed country.

Oil and gas prices were…

DRC: Chinese Company Removed as Operator of Cobalt Mine in Congo

Feb 28, 2022 | Eric Lipton and Dionne Searcey, New York Times

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sidelined the Chinese owner of one of the world’s largest copper and cobalt mines, a major…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Kurdistan Region Presidency Rejects Federal Court's Oil and Gas Ruling

Feb 28, 2022 | Rowena Edwards, Reuters

The Kurdistan Region's presidency in Iraq rejected on Monday a federal court ruling on its oil and gas activities, and said the region would continue…