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Ecuador: An Army of 800 Women Protects Ecuador’s Water
Jun 23, 2023
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Santiago Rosero, El Pais
In the country’s central mountain range, mothers and wives are challenging domestic machismo and defending vital water resources.
Ukraine: Agencies Join Forces with Deminers to Reclaim Agricultural Land in Ukraine
Jun 22, 2023
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UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have designed a new joint programme for smallholder farmers and rural families most…
Climate Change: Press Statement on Climate and Security from Frans Timmermans, Josep Borrell, Jens Stoltenberg, and John Kerry
Jun 21, 2023
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European Commission
They reiterated that climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to the planet, and also have immediate, direct, and growing negative implications for…
‘Women Bear the Biggest Brunt of Climate Change,’ says Climate Scientist Susan Chomba
Jun 21, 2023
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Neha Wadekar
Roughly 12 percent of the world’s top climate scientists are women and fewer than one percent are from Africa – a continent hard hit by climate…
A Tale of Two Definitions: Fortifying Four Key Elements of the Proposed Crime of Ecocide (Part I)
Jun 20, 2023
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Matthew Gillett
This two-part post addresses four facets of the Independent Expert Panel‘s (“IEP”) 2021 proposed definition of Ecocide and contrasts them with the corresponding elements of…
Flares of Despair: The Human Cost of Iraq’s Oil – in Pictures [Photos]
Jun 20, 2023
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Daniela Sala, Sara Manisera and Essam El Sudani, Guardian
Pollution and extraction of water are having a huge impact on local communities. High rates of cancer and respiratory problems are the norm, while marshes…
Beyond the UN Security Council: Can the UN General Assembly Tackle the Climate–Security Challenge?
Jun 20, 2023
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Adam Day and Florian Krampe
Despite the evidence, and despite the Security Council having already passed more than 70 resolutions and statements on climate-related security risks, efforts to make climate…
Opinion: Make Climate Finance Inclusive for Just Transition to Net Zero
Jun 20, 2023
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Jyotsna Puri and Pablo Vieira
Beyond the UN Security Council: Can the UN General Assembly Tackle the Climate–Security Challenge?
Jun 20, 2023
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Adam Day and Florian Krampe
The wildfires raging in Canada are yet another reminder that climate change is already having an impact on all our lives. As the smoke clears…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Blocks UN Aid for Kakhovka Dam Collapse Victims
Jun 19, 2023
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Al Jazeera
Moscow has rejected United Nations’ offers to help people in Russian-occupied areas affected by flooding from the collapsed Nova Kakhovka Dam. The dam was breached…
Climate Response for Drylands Must Include Women
Jun 17, 2023
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Tiina Vähänen and Fidaa F. Haddad
In the world’s drylands, which are home to nearly 40% of the global population, women are feeling the effects of climate change. Droughts and land…
Call for Abstracts: 2024 WESIPS Conference in Seville, Spain
Jun 17, 2023
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Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability
The organizers are seeking papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches addressing one or more of the following topics: Prehistoric/historic/contemporary warfare, ritual…
2023 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security [Deadline: September 25, 2023]
Jun 17, 2023
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Geneva Center for Security Policy
The GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security welcomes contributions from all disciplines and fields, embracing a diverse range of approaches towards advancing sustainable global…
Iraq: Drought Forces Iraqi Fishermen to Abandon Their Nets [Photos]
Jun 16, 2023
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Bilind T. Abdullah, Rudaw
Water levels have declined by nearly 50 percent in Dhi Qar province’s al-Hammar Marshes in recent years, leaving hundreds of fishermen without jobs. Hammar, one…
How Environmental Conflicts Hurt — and Motivate — Women Activists
Jun 15, 2023
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Katie Myers, Grist
Even when governments concede to environmentalists, women are often left out of negotiations.
How Environmental Conflicts Hurt — and Motivate — Women Activists
Jun 15, 2023
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Katie Myers, Grist
Even when governments concede to environmentalists, women are often left out of negotiations.
Iraq/Kurdistan: New Iraqi Budget Law Strengthens Baghdad's Hand over Kurdistan Region's Oil Sector
Jun 15, 2023
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Wladimir van Wilgenburg, S&P Global
Already reeling from the months-long suspension of its crude exports, Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region may see its lifeblood oil sector further hemmed in with the…
Afghanistan: Locusts Destroy Afghanistan Crops amid Severe Food Crisis [Photos]
Jun 15, 2023
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Al Jazeera
Hundreds of thousands of locusts have descended on crops in northern Afghanistan under the helpless gaze of farmers and their families already stalked by food…
Colombia: Repentant Ranchers Rescuing Colombian Wildlife
Jun 15, 2023
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Juan Sebastian Serrano
Two newborn pumas and a convalescing porcupine share a room in the home of the Zapata family, which has renounced livestock farming to focus on…
The Kakhovka Dam Disaster: Responsibility and Consequences
Jun 14, 2023
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Andrian Prokip
In the early morning hours of June 6, an explosion destroyed the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on the Dnipro river. Seismic data…
Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine Accused Russia of Preparing to Blow up a Chemical Plant in Crimea in a 'Man-Made Catastrophe' That Would Spread 200 Tons of Ammonia to Nearby Districts
Jun 13, 2023
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Matthew Loh, Business Insider
Ukraine's intelligence wing on Sunday accused Russia of rigging a chemical plant in Crimea to explode, saying it's observed Moscow's forces mining and evacuating the…
President Biden’s Focus on Environmental Justice Has a Crucial Blind Spot
Jun 13, 2023
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Carly A. Krakow
On April 21, President Biden signed an executive order addressing domestic toxic pollution and climate vulnerabilities that disproportionately burden low-income communities and communities of color.…
Use of Water as a Weapon of War Likely to Increase
Jun 13, 2023
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Kerry Boyd Anderson
The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine last week highlighted the role of water in warfare. The use of water as a weapon…
Promoting Women’s Leadership in “Loss and Damage” Climate Negotiations
Jun 13, 2023
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Marisa O. Ensor
Last year, women took the lead on one of COP27’s most contentious and challenging issues: climate reparations, the third pillar of international climate change governance, usually referred to…
EnPAx Announces the Eighth Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding
Jun 13, 2023
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Eighth Al-Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding, honoring outstanding contributions…
The Taliban’s Opium Ban: A Success or a Failure?
Jun 13, 2023
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Altaf Moti
Afghanistan is the world’s biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. Production spiraled over the past 20 years despite…
Afghanistan: Herat Rain-Fed Cropland Harvests Decline by 80 Percent
Jun 12, 2023
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Binyamin Barez, Pajhwok Afghan News
The rain-fed crops' harvest has decreased by 80 percent in western Herat province this year owing to acute drought conditions, an official said on Monday.
Liberia: How Police Busted a Web of Korean Timber Traffickers
Jun 12, 2023
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Esau J. Far, Observer
In January the Liberia National Police (LNP) charged several men, including two Korean nationals, in connection with an illegal logging operation in Gbarpolu County. Their…
ELN Ceasefire Could Ease Environmental Degradation in Colombia
Jun 12, 2023
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The new Colombian government is in the midst of an attempt to conclude its decades-long internal conflict, and a deal with the ELN forms a…
Conflict, Crisis, and Peacebuilding: Afghanistan and Regional Water Security
Jun 12, 2023
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Elizabeth B. Hessami
Gunfire erupted at the border of the Afghan Nimroz Province and Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province on May 27, 2023, amid rising tensions over water rights, killing…