Blogs & Opinions
From Gaza to Sudan, Conflict Is Driving a Rise in Hunger Worldwide
Feb 1, 2024
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Dylan Scott
In 2015, the UN set the ambitious goal of eliminating world hunger by 2030. Over the last decade, though, all that progress has started to…
Water: A Platform for Peace in the Tides of War
Feb 1, 2024
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Ellen Pokorny, Cécile Pillon Hue, and Katie Goldie-Ryder
Sabotaging civilians' access to water during an armed conflict is a war crime that violates international humanitarian law. Yet, many belligerent forces resort to using…
NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence to Open in Montréal: What Does It Mean for Canadian Security?
Feb 1, 2024
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Ryan Atkinson
This year Montréal is set to become the home for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s new Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE). The…
International Banking Projects and Restoring the Lower Dnipro’s Ecosystems
Jan 31, 2024
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Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Eugene Simonov
International development banks are extremely important participants in Ukraine’s recovery. It is important for civil society to engage in dialogue with them, and banks must…
Six Questions to Level Up Your Climate + Gender Strategies
Jan 30, 2024
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Natalie Shriber
A growing number of climate investors are recognizing that applying a gender lens can deepen their climate impact – and accelerate a just economic and climate…
Lessons to Advance Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Through Climate Action
Jan 29, 2024
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International Development Research Centre
Climate change remains one of the major challenges of our time, with countries in the Global South being the most affected. Emerging research shows that…
Gender Diversity and Trust Will Boost Climate Action in 2024
Jan 23, 2024
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Maria Mendiluce
I spent last week in the small mountain town of Davos along with global business leaders, politicians, academics and members of civil society who came…
Water, Corruption, and Security in Iran
Jan 23, 2024
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Eleanor Greenbaum
This past summer was the hottest on record, bringing devastating impacts to many global communities. Iran was one of many nations that faced both debilitating…
Environment and Security | Q&A with Editor in Chief, Ashok Swain
Jan 22, 2024
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Wilson Center
From Afghanistan, Nepal, and Libya to the Arctic, the new issue of Environment and Security takes a fresh look at emerging issues at the intersection…
The All-Male COP29 Committee is a Big Step Backwards for Climate
Jan 19, 2024
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Nella Canales, Isabelle Mallon, Laura Del Duca and Trevor Grizzell
The recent appointment of an all-men committee, with members linked to the country’s oil and gas industry, to organize this year’s Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan…
The Sahel: A Deadly New Era in the Decades-Long Conflict
Jan 17, 2024
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Héni Nsaibia
The central Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — all of which are now ruled by military juntas — are engulfed in a…
The Dynamics of Violence in Pursuit of Land in the Pan Amazon
Jan 17, 2024
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Timothy J. Killeen
The adage ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law’ is not legally true, but the concept reigns supreme on frontier landscapes in the Pan Amazon. Land…
From Mines to Vines: The Allies’ Path to Restoring Ukraine’s War-Scarred Terrain
Jan 16, 2024
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Armenak Ohanesian
Ukraine's fertile soil, known as chernozem, has underpinned generations of farmers; vast farmlands have long been Ukrainians’ pride. This agricultural prowess has not only fed…
Unpacking the Impact of the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Jan 14, 2024
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Wilson Center
In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Director Lauren Risi hosts three contributing authors of the international chapter of the recently released fifth National…
Gender Equality in Climate Leadership Can’t Wait
Jan 12, 2024
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Karen Stefiszyn and Robyn Camp
A record number of participants, and yet only 15 of the 133 world leaders present were women. A historic commitment to transition away from fossil…
10 Women Leading in the Fight Against Climate Change
Jan 10, 2024
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Christiana Jansen
Although women roughly make up half of the global population and are more vulnerable to climate change due to cultural, social, and economic factors, many women are leading the…
The Climate Costs of War and Militaries Can No Longer Be Ignored
Jan 9, 2024
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Doug Weir
Two decades of international analysis and debate over the relationship between climate change and security has focused on how our rapidly destabilising climate could undermine…
Conflict Minerals Compliance – New Twists for 2024
Jan 8, 2024
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Michael R. Littenberg, Austin Bohn, and Katherine Donohue
The next filing under the U.S. Conflict Minerals Rule is due on May 31, 2024. That filing will be for the 2023 calendar year. In…
The MENA Region Is Headed for More Insecurity Due to Climate Change. Can This Be Mitigated?
Jan 8, 2024
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Kyungmee Kim and Tània Ferré Garcia
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, home to widely diverse cultures and a population of about 500 million, is highly exposed to the…
On the Climate Crisis, We Are All Suffering, But Women from the South Are Suffering More
Jan 4, 2024
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Laila Hanifah
In the post-Cold War era, as the risk of major armed conflicts and wars between states declined, other threats of a non-war nature began to…
The Security Problem with Climate Migration Isn’t the Migration
Jan 2, 2024
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Tom Ellison
Security actors should be careful how they characterize climate change and migration. Climate migration is poised to continue growing, at an increasingly rapid rate, just…
Nature-Based Recovery Needed for Ukraine’s Damaged Protected Areas
Dec 22, 2023
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Hannah L. Timmins
As winter closes in, Ukraine is facing demoralizing news. Western support for the war is faltering, Ukrainian troops in the east are being pushed onto…
“Always Money for War”, Reflecting on COP28
Dec 21, 2023
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Ellie Kinney and Linsey Cottrell
COP28 was a memorable COP for many reasons; a record-breaking 100,000 attendees, the first ever ‘peace day’, and the landmark establishment of a long awaited…
A New Tool to Assess Environmental Peacebuilding
Dec 19, 2023
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Eleanor Greenbaum
As climate-related disasters swell in scale and intensity, the countries and communities impacted by fragility or conflict are among the most vulnerable. The explicit focus…
Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza
Dec 18, 2023
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Human Rights Watch
The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime, Human Rights…
Climate Change is Not Gender Neutral: The Need for a Just Transition
Dec 18, 2023
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Emily Williams
There has been strong debate around the success of COP28 and the lack of ambition in moving away from fossil fuels, but even in this…
COP28’s Opportunity to Empower Women-Led Climate Action
Dec 17, 2023
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Nicoline De Haan
Of all the announcements made at COP28, the start of Brazil’s presidency of the G20 may prove to be among the most significant in the…
Democracy and Climate Politics Are Set to Collide Next Year
Dec 17, 2023
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David Fickling
As the dust settles on the COP28 climate summit that concluded last week in Dubai, a sobering reality is looming. After the legalistic niceties of…
New Platform Seeks to Prevent Ocean Conflict in the Face of Climate Change
Dec 12, 2023
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Jacqui Vogel and Dr. Sarah Glaser
Oceans are under immense threat from climate change. Around the world, oceanographic changes like melting sea ice, warming waters, sea level rise and shifting fish…
Launching a New Academic Research Network on Conflict and the Environment
Dec 12, 2023
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
On 12th December, a new research community the ‘Conflict and Environment Academic Network (CEAN)’ was launched at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. In…