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Registration Open for Forests & Peace Social Hour

Feb 22, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

On Tuesday, March 2, from 9:30 - 11:00  EST, the Forest Interest Group, Africa Interest Group, and the Young Professionals Interest Group of the Environmental…

As Biden Seeks Answers on Climate’s Impact on Migration, Sydney Declaration Provides Legal Ground Rules for Action

Feb 22, 2021 | Jane McAdam

In an executive order earlier this month, President Joe Biden ordered a report into “climate change and its impact on migration, including forced migration, internal displacement, and…

Why United Nations Peace Operations Cannot Ignore Climate Change

Feb 22, 2021 | Florian Krampe

On 23 February the United Nations (UN) Security Council will hold an open session on the topic of climate change and security. The security implications…

Saudi-Led Attacks Devastated Yemen’s Civilian Infrastructure, Dramatically Worsening the Humanitarian Crisis

Feb 22, 2021 | Jeannie Sowers and Erika Weinthal

In early February, the Biden administration announced several shifts in U.S. policy toward the war in Yemen — a conflict that has left 20 million…

Iraq: Iraq Seeks International Investors to Build 750 MW Solar Projects

Feb 21, 2021 | Reuters

Iraq is seeking international investors to build seven solar power plants, with a total capacity of 750 megawatts (MW) as it aims to develop its…

DRC Is Rich with Farmland, So Why Do 22 Million People There Face Starvation?

Feb 21, 2021 | Vava Tampa

I was food shopping when I read the news. Nearly 22 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing starvation and malnutrition. Now. In…

Environmental Security Internship

Feb 20, 2021 | Stimson Center

For three decades, the Stimson Center has pioneered practical new steps toward stability and security in an uncertain world. Today, as changes in power and…

Experts Spotlight Bottom-Up Approaches and the Impacts of Conflict on Infrastructure in the Next Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 20, 2021 | Ratia Tekenet

“For 30 years, a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have been working to untangle the complex relationships between environmental change and human and national…

Yemen: WASH and Infrastructures Technical Coordinator

Feb 20, 2021 | ACTED

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity,…

Indonesia: Information Technology Consultant for One Map Initiatives

Feb 20, 2021 | World Resources Institute

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human…

Indonesia: Consultant as Full Stack GIS Developer

Feb 20, 2021 | World Resources Institute

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human…

Myanmar: Resilient Asian Deltas Initiative Lead, Asia Pacific

Feb 20, 2021 | World Wildlife Fund for Nature

WWF’s strategy harnesses the strengths of the WWF network in a shared vision, focusing on six major goals - water, wildlife, the ocean, climate and…

Intern, Computational Social Science, Global Restoration Initiative, University of Chicago

Feb 20, 2021 | World Resources Institute

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human…

Researcher, Climate Change and Risk Programme

Feb 20, 2021 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is seeking a talented social science Researcher in the study area of Climate Change and Risk (CCR). The…

Senior Researcher, Climate Change and Risk Programme

Feb 20, 2021 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is seeking a talented social science Senior Researcher in the study area of Climate Change and Risk (CCR).

The…

Syria: Food Security and Livelihood Program Manager

Feb 20, 2021 | Cooperazione Internazionale

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. COOPI aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access…

Somalia: National Project Manager

Feb 20, 2021 | UNDP

Somalia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change stemming from its social, economic, and political conditions, as well as…

Niger: Advisor, Livelihoods

Feb 20, 2021 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…

South Sudan: Area Coordinator

Feb 20, 2021 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…

DRC: Law Enforcement Advisor Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Feb 20, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (OWR) for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working…

Liberia: Liberia Pilots Blockchain Land Registration with Medici Land

Feb 19, 2021 | Ledger Insights

Overstock.com’s blockchain subsidiary Medici Land Governance (MLG) launched a land administration pilot project using blockchain in the city of Monrovia, in Liberia. The pilot is a collaboration…

Lisa Ilboudo Nébié: Studying Food Security, Environmental Changes and Migration in West Africa

Feb 18, 2021 | Anuradha Varanasi

As a human ecologist, Elisabeth Ilboudo Nébié looks at the impact of the environment on people. Also, how people are adapting to environmental change.

After graduating with a…

South Sudan: New Protected Area Relieves Pressure on Primates and Pangolins in South Sudan

Feb 18, 2021 | Tim Knight, Fauna & Flora International

The future of globally important wildlife—including endangered chimpanzees and pangolins—looks a little brighter after over 17,000 hectares of severely threatened forest habitat in an ecologically…

Ethiopia/Sudan: Tensions Run High over Border Region Dispute: Sudan Recalls Envoy to Ethiopia

Feb 18, 2021 | Agence France-Presse

Sudan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia, the foreign ministry said, as tensions between the two countries run high over a border region and…

Canadian, US Cannabis Corporations Threaten Colombia's Indigenous Communities

Feb 18, 2021 | Fernanda Sanchez Jaramillo

In 2016, when the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) was signed, Colombia also introduced the legal…

Restructuring for Resolution of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts

Feb 18, 2021 | Samson Akinola

To the Executive Governors of Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states, this is a summary of a proposal titled, “Restructuring for Resolution of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts…

What Would the Nile River Say? The GERD: Approaching the Basin (Part III) | ZeHabesha

Feb 18, 2021 | Amanuel T. Muhzun

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has had a large international focus with reports about its advantages and disadvantages. In fact, the Project is quite…

Myanmar: US Sanctions Block Myanmar's Gemstone Exports

Feb 17, 2021 | John Jeffay, IDEX

US President Joe Biden has blacklisted three gemstone companies in Myanmar because of their links with military regime that ousted state counsellor Aung San Suu…

Afghanistan (Part Two): The Saudi Arabia of Lithium

Feb 17, 2021 | Greg Mills

Whatever the doubts about the future path of its politics and concerns over ratcheting levels of violence, donors remain committed to Afghanistan, for now.

The 2020…

Afghanistan: World Bank Approves $97M Grant to Tackle COVID-19 and Drought

Feb 17, 2021 | Khaama Press

To support Afghans affected by drought, Covid-19 pandemic, and nutrition security, the World Bank has granted a total of $97.50 million from the international development…