Blogs & Opinions
How to Confront Gender-Based Violence in a Warming World
May 4, 2024
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Zonibel Woods and Micaela P. Agoncillo
Extreme heat fuels violence in ways that are just beginning to be understood. Rising temperatures have an impact on mental health and human behavior, and…
Could Resource Wars over Water become Frequent in the Future?
May 1, 2024
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Julian McBride
Water is a primary natural resource that the human race cannot live without. Nations worldwide use water for irrigation, agriculture, energy, and science to feed…
Spontaneous Recovery in Wartime: How Ukraine Can become a Testing Ground for Unique Environmental Projects
Apr 30, 2024
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Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Viktoria Hubareva
Most of Ukraine’s protected natural areas have been damaged by the war and have now been deprived of their environmental value, although nature is showing…
War, Natural Disasters, Security Concerns and Tourism
Apr 29, 2024
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Bendegul Okumus
Some regions of the world are experiencing wars and conflict, which have caused serious problems in supply chain management. For example, countries that import significant…
The Double Costs of Conflict-Driven Climate Change in MENA and Beyond
Apr 29, 2024
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Ariel Ezrahi
While much of the world’s attention was on the ongoing Gaza war, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was also dealing with unprecedented…
EU Adopts Mandatory Rules on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence That Will Apply to Many US Companies
Apr 24, 2024
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Cooley
On 24 April 2024, the European Parliament voted to adopt the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), meaning it will now become law and necessitate…
New Insensitive Munitions May Pose Lingering Toxic Threat
Apr 22, 2024
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Hanna Homestead
Within the US, the production of explosive weapons has resulted in massive amounts of pollution and ecological destruction. There are currently more than 40,000 military…
Things I (Don’t) Worry about: Water Wars [Video]
Apr 19, 2024
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Peter Zeihan
There are some practical limitations to water wars. Water isn’t easy to move and redirecting rivers or directional flows is time consuming, expensive, and hard…
Addressing Haiti's Climate Security Challenges: A Pathway to Peace and Resilience
Apr 16, 2024
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Dorine Jn Paul
Haiti, a Caribbean nation endowed with natural beauty and rich cultural heritage, finds itself grappling with a myriad of challenges, from environmental degradation to political…
CLIMATE CHANGE JUSTICE: Women affected by ‘gender-biased’ climate change deserve justice
Apr 16, 2024
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The Guardian
While research into the unequal impacts of climate change on women is growing, more is needed to enable them to realize their rights to climate…
Water Wars: Chinese Fishermen Drown Following Chase Near Taiwan-Controlled Island
Apr 15, 2024
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Aaron Baum, Teresa Chen, Alana Nance, Nikhita Salgame, and Ania Zolyniak
On Feb. 14, two Chinese fishermen fleeing Taiwan’s coast guard drowned off the coast of Kinmen archipelago, also known as the Quemoy. The Kinmen archipelago…
Beyond Complicity, Obstruction and Geopolitics: Military Forces and Climate Security
Apr 15, 2024
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Anselm Vogler
The contentious and ambiguous entanglement that military forces have with their natural environment inevitably sparkles public interest and academic research. So how does the existing…
Energy Crisis and Women: Darkness is not impartial
Apr 15, 2024
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Alina H. Fuentes
On March 17, citizen protests were registered in various parts of Cuba, mainly in Santiago, Matanzas and Bayamo. The images documented a significant participation of women, some…
Advancing the Rights of Girls and Women Promotes Justice and Is Also Effective Climate Action
Apr 10, 2024
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Philanthropy News Digest
Across the world, climate change disproportionately impacts the lives of girls, yet children are often forgotten in climate policy. I recently led a team of…
Terrorism Is Declining around Lake Chad, but the War Is Not Won
Apr 10, 2024
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Adam Abass
The Lake Chad region, which once grabbed international headlines as a stronghold of jihadist terrorism, has witnessed a gradual decrease in the presence of terrorist…
Sandeshkhali: How Adapting to Ecological Distress Led to Landgrabs, Abuse and Economic Oppression
Apr 9, 2024
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Ambar Kumar Ghosh and Sayanangshu Modak
India’s recent political controversy in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal, highlights how adaptation to deal with rising salinity can go badly wrong: alleged landgrabs, economic oppression, and abuse. As the…
Australian and UK Defence Commit to Joint Action on Climate
Apr 8, 2024
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Afeeya Akhand
The development of an Australia-UK joint climate action plan as part of AUKMIN’s defence and security pillar foregrounds the important role of the two countries’…
Iraq Set to Reopen Pipeline as Kurdish Talks Stall
Apr 8, 2024
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Middle East Monitor
Iraq is repairing a pipeline that could allow it to send 350,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) to Turkiye by the end of the…
Gender-Based Violence and Climate Change: The Challenges of Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia
Apr 8, 2024
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Natalia Urzola and María Paula González
In 2016, after over five decades of internal armed conflict, the Colombian government and the largest guerrilla group in the country, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército…
Shahpur Kandi Dam: Inching Towards India-Pakistan Water Wars!
Apr 6, 2024
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KJ Singh
The Shahpur Kandi Dam, which India is on the verge of completing, will allow India to utilise the waters of the Ravi River more extensively…
The Nexus of Trade and Food Security amid Global Conflicts
Apr 4, 2024
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JD Supra
The intricate interplay between trade and food security has emerged as a vital global issue, one that is closely interwoven with the tapestry of international…
Famine Looms in Sudan as Conflict Decimates Fragile Food Systems
Apr 3, 2024
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CARE
The ongoing conflict in Sudan is rapidly pushing millions of people already facing hunger, further toward the brink of famine. Shockingly, estimates suggest that severe…
COP28 Introduced Peace and Conflict into the Climate Discussion. What Comes Next?
Apr 3, 2024
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Megan Ferrando
At the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (28th Conference of the Parties, COP28) in Dubai last December, 74 countries, organizations, and multinational development banks…
Water for Peace
Mar 30, 2024
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Ranjan Kumar Padmapati
Every year, the 22nd of March is earmarked as World Water Day to lay emphasis on water-related issues. Water is becoming more and more scarce,…
Environmental Consequences of Russia’s War in Ukraine. Review. March 2024
Mar 29, 2024
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Alexej Ovchinnikov
CEOBS publishes preliminary environmental impact assessment of the first year of full-scale invasion. Ecodiya announces volunteer project to collect data on environmental damage caused by…
More Dredging, More Freight: How the War in Ukraine Threatens the Danube River Biosphere Reserve
Mar 28, 2024
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Viktoria Hubareva
The Danube Delta is Europe’s largest delta ecosystem after the Volga, and also the continent’s second-largest water purification system. The delta also serves as one of…
What Does Russia’s War in Ukraine Mean for Global Biodiversity Conservation Efforts?
Mar 27, 2024
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Margaret D. Williams
This article explores some of the environmental consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine that are being felt far beyond the battlefields. In the high latitudes…
Assessing Local Aspects of Climate Security and Environmental Peace
Mar 25, 2024
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Tobias Ide, Anselm Vogler, Jan Sändig, and Natalia Dalmer
Climate change’s potential to aggravate insecurity, particularly through violent conflict, has created a fear that is both widespread and justified. Civil and defense ministries around…
Water Weaponization in Russia and Ukraine: A Conversation with Marcus King
Mar 22, 2024
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Wilson Center
Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine just over two years ago upset the larger foreign policy conversations surrounding global stability—and Russia’s role in it. Yet the…
Evaluating Projects and Programs in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent Contexts
Mar 21, 2024
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Ella Stack, Amanda Woomer, Carl Bruch, and Shaadee Ahmadnia
Worsening climate change and natural resource degradation exacerbate existing insecurities as competition for natural resources increases, institutional fragility is amplified, and economic, social, and political…