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Climate Change: Climate Change Related Conflicts Gradually Gripping Communities

Sep 20, 2021 | Peter Makwanya, Newsday

The destructive nature of climate change impacts on ecological diversity are being witnessed around the globe. The climate-induced floods, hailstorms, droughts, heatwaves, hunger and famine,…

Liberia: Nimba Clans Square off over Customary Land Title Claims

Sep 20, 2021 | Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa

This disarmingly peaceful forest area in Liberia's far north Tappita District has been the scene of conflict of one form or another for decades. But…

Support the “Assist a Scholar” Campaign to Facilitate Participation in Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 20, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

As we prepare for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, we are working hard to ensure the event is accessible to a diverse, global…

Apply Now for Travel Grants for the Second International on Environmental Peacebuilding!

Sep 20, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

EnPAx is dedicated to ensuring our events remain accessible and inclusive. To ensure the Second International Conference of Environmental Peacebuilding includes a diverse mix of…

Ukraine: WASH Programme Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | People in Need

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech Republic-based NGO globally working in the relief and development sectors. PIN has been active in Ukraine since early…

Netherlands: Young Water Diplomats Program

Sep 19, 2021 | IHE Delft

The Young Water Diplomats Program provides diplomats and professionals with a background in foreign affairs, international relations or international law with relevant and up-to-date knowledge…

Afghanistan: Land Dispute Results in 3 Brothers' Death in E. Afghanistan

Sep 19, 2021 | Xinhua

At least three member of a family were killed in Afghanistan eastern province of Paktia, an official said Sunday. The murderer has been arrested and…

Ukraine: Long-Term Energy Adviser

Sep 19, 2021 | Danida

Danish International Development Agency (Danida) is the brand used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark when it provides humanitarian aid and development assistance…

Germany: Project Manager, Land and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa Project

Sep 19, 2021 | Transparency International

The Transparency International Secretariat is currently seeking a Project Manager for the Land and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa Project (more details available at https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/land-corruption-sub-saharan-africa). The project’s…

CAR: Conservation Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues,…

Myanmar: Project Manager, Sustainable Production

Sep 19, 2021 | Worldwide Fund for Nature

To achieve green investments at scale, domestic finance, particularly from private banks, needs to be mobilized. The project would support local banks to understand the…

Somalia: Request for Proposal – Consultancy on Mid-Term Project Review and Evaluation for FSSFS Project

Sep 19, 2021 | European Committee for Training and Agriculture

The European Committee for Training and Agriculture (“CEFA”) has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (“IFAD”) for Food Security and Sustainability in Fragile…

France: Environmental Project Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian medical association, created in 1971, which comes to the aid of sick or injured populations in the…

Syria: Eastern HUB Area Manager

Sep 19, 2021 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

The Role

We are looking for Eastern HUB Area Manager, Lead and manage…

Iraq: Program Manager - ACTIVATE (Advocacy Creates Transformational Influence Validating Action for the Environment)

Sep 19, 2021 | 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…

Mozambique: Niassa REDD + Program Director

Sep 19, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US-based non-governmental organization founded in 1895 that protects wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical issues, creating science-based solutions…

Afghanistan: Following the Minerals

Sep 17, 2021 | Rick Mills, Mining.com

“Nature abhors a vacuum” is a familiar maxim in science. It means that empty spaces are un-natural as they go against the laws of physics.…

Colombia: Colombia Sees the Most Slayings of Environmental Defenders for a Second Year, Report Says

Sep 17, 2021 | Richard McColl, The Globe and Mail

For a second year in a row, Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for environmentalists, according to an international human rights group that has…

Afghanistan: Taliban Works to Get Copper Mines Open [Video]

Sep 17, 2021 | Charles Stratford, Al Jazeera

As China moves to engage with the Taliban, it is setting its sights on Afghanistan’s vast mineral resources. The interim government wants Chinese recognition so…

Call for Abstracts: From a Climate-Security Nexus of Conflicts to a Nexus of Synergies (Deadline: 30th September 2021)

Sep 16, 2021 | Universität Hamburg

As the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) unveils, the planet is 1.20C warmer than the pre-industrial period, which is…

Liberia: FDA Issues Moratorium on Harvesting of Chewing Sticks

Sep 16, 2021 | Observer

The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has frowned on the unscrupulous harvesting of Chewing Sticks (Clear felling), something which it says is seriously undermining and threatening…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: UN Security Council Weighs in on Nile Dam Dispute

Sep 16, 2021 | Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor

The United Nations Security Council has recently called on Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to resume negotiations on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which…

How Inaction on Climate Change Can Worsen the Crisis in Afghanistan

Sep 15, 2021 | Jariel Arvin

After decades of foreign intervention and violent conflict, the American mission in Afghanistan has ended and the Taliban have announced a new government. But for…

Sudan and Ethiopia Are Nearing a Fight over Land and Water

Sep 15, 2021 | Christopher Rhodes

Humanitarian agencies and the international community have rightly decried the growing conflict within Ethiopia as a humanitarian disaster. Last November, conflict broke out between the…

Butterfly Effect: Why Spies Need to Focus on Climate Change

Sep 15, 2021 | Charu Sudan Kasturi

When President Joe Biden and 40 other world leaders gathered for a virtual summit on climate change organized by the U.S. in April, the list…

Energy: Commodity Giants Race to Clean up Mineral Supply Chains amid Green Energy Boom

Sep 15, 2021 | Jessica Davis Plüss, SWI

To meet global climate change targets, demand for minerals and metals like cobalt, copper, and nickel used in green technologies like rechargeable batteries is expected…

Environmental Justice: Why Civil Rights and Protecting the Planet Go Hand-in-hand

Sep 15, 2021

As the global ecological crisis impacts ever-more lives, it is becoming clearer that we cannot talk about cimate change, pollution or biodiversity loss without talking…

Climate Security: It’s about Time

Sep 15, 2021 | Sharon Burke

Like most of us who were alive at that time, Sharon Burke knows exactly where she was on 9/11 when she heard the news. She…

USA: PhD Graduate Research Assistantship in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

Sep 15, 2021 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Housed within the College of ACES, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences educational and research programs center on science, applied ecology, and conservation…

Guatemala: Especialista en Género, Equidad e Inclusión Social, I-WASH

Sep 14, 2021 | CARE

El Especialista en Equidad de Género e Inclusión Social - GESI liderará la implementación de la evaluación de equidad, género e inclusión social y las…