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Climate Change: Weathering the Storm: How Japan Is Factoring Climate Change into Defense Policy

Mar 19, 2023 | Gabriel Dominguez, Japan Times

Storm surges, flooding, more powerful typhoons and scorching temperatures — climate change will bring more of all to Japan, endangering military sites, personnel and gear,…

DRC: DR Congo Wants to Revise 2008 Mining Agreement with China

Mar 19, 2023 | The Brussels Times with Belga

President Felix Tshisekedi on Saturday spoke out in favour of revising the mining contract concluded in 2008 with China, signed by his predecessor Joseph Kabila,…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdistan Oil Revenues to Be Transferred by Baghdad for First Time Since 2002

Mar 17, 2023 | Arab Weekly

Oil revenues from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will be transferred to a bank account under federal government supervision for the first time since 2002, state…

Myanmar: Environmental Damage in Ethnic Areas Increases 2 Years after Coup, Says KRW

Mar 17, 2023 | Karen News

The Karen Rivers Watch (KRW) has issued a statement on March 14, the International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water and Life,…

Blame Governments, Not the Environment: How Political Failures Worsen the Effects of Climate Change in West Africa

Mar 17, 2023 | Georgetown Security Studies Review

With seven coups since 2020, West Africa is drawing global attention as a hotspot for conflict and a critical locus of discourse on climate security.…

Armed Conflicts Spread Contaminated Water and Disease: Here’s How to Better Protect Civilians

Mar 17, 2023 | Mark Zeitoun and Michael Talhami

Public health engineers, often working for humanitarian organizations all over the globe, observe a pattern as routine as it is toxic: Explosions impair electricity services,…

Water Wars: The Shift to a Green Energy Future Is Renewing Plantation-Era Water Wars in Hawaii

Mar 16, 2023 | Brittany Lyte, Honolulu Civil Beat

A proposed hydro project — the first of its kind in the world — could supply up to a quarter of the island’s power by…

5 Facts About Gender Equality and Climate Change

Mar 16, 2023 | GABRIELA CARBÓ ZACK

Girls and women do not experience climate change in the same ways as boys and men. The reason? Historical and structural gender inequalities — which…

Gender Matters at the UN Water Conference 2023

Mar 16, 2023 | Marisa O. Ensor

The first global water summit in nearly 50 years – the UN 2023 Water Conference – will take place at UN Headquarters in New York, 22-24 March 2023. This high-profile…

Climate Justice: Stories of Resistance with Activists from the East Med

Mar 15, 2023 | Josef Boraei and Myrto Skouroupathi, Cyprus Mail

Various initiatives and groups hosted the recent event in Nicosia, ‘Stories of Resistance’, as a symbolic and powerful tool to learn, unpack buried narratives and…

Syria: Displacement, Earthquakes and People on the Brink: The Conflict in Syria 12 Years on

Mar 15, 2023 | World Food Programme

Before the deadly earthquakes on its border with Türkiye, in February, Syria was a largely forgotten crisis – now, as the country marks 12 years of conflict,…

Gender Data Can Reinvigorate the SDGs

Mar 15, 2023 | Papaalioune B. Seck and Krista J. Baptista

In his February 2023 remarks to the General Assembly during the Consultation on the Summit of the Future, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged Member States to commit…

Before the Next Shock, the World Needs a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Food Insecurity

Mar 14, 2023 | Adam Gallagher and Arif Husain

In recent years, the world has seen a host of interconnected challenges, with a crisis in one part of the world setting off epiphenomenal emergencies…

Ukraine/Russia: The War in Ukraine Is a Human Tragedy. It’s Also an Environmental Disaster.

Mar 13, 2023 | Jeff Stein and Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post

Since the war began more than a year ago, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded on the battlefield while the…

How Women Are Tapping into Sustainable Land Management for Livelihoods and Landscape Restoration in Mali

Mar 12, 2023 | M. Bourne

Djelika Malle is a farmer in the village of Dintiola who relies heavily on the land and its resources for her livelihood. From a distance,…

Myanmar: Explained: Why Teak Imported from Myanmar Is Called "Conflict Wood"

Mar 12, 2023 | Pooja Yadav, India Times

India is now the second largest importer of "conflict wood" from Myanmar, following China, according to a recent investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative…

Liberia: New Agreement Reached to Protect 30% of Liberia’s Forest

Mar 10, 2023 | David A. Yates, Observer

A landmark agreement, which seeks to protect Liberia's rich forest biodiversity from threat has been reached between conservationists and community dwellers in forest areas.

Bolivia: Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia

Mar 10, 2023 | Peter Schmidt, North American Congress on Latin America

Sarah T. Hines’s 140-year history of water conflict in Cochabamba, Bolivia paints a picture of environmental world-building that is plodding, messy, and sorely needed.

Yemen: UN Signs Deal to Salvage Stranded Oil from Tanker off Yemen

Mar 10, 2023 | Associated Press

The United Nations announced Thursday it has signed an agreement to purchase a very large vessel that can transfer more than 1 million barrels of…

Liberia: GVL Violates Villagers’ Rights, Sues for Palm Theft

Mar 9, 2023 | Mark B. Newa, Observer

Things were about to change for Lincoln Weah and his friends but he did not know. It was July 7, 2022. Weah had just returned…

Sweden: Post-Doctoral Position in Public International Law

Mar 9, 2023 | Lund University

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 46 000 students and more…

Climate Change: The Hague Round Table: ‘The More Fragile a Country Is, the Less Climate Finance It Gets’

Mar 8, 2023 | Climate Centre

This year’s round table on climate and security in The Hague yesterday covered the growing challenge of getting climate finance through to fragile and conflict-affected…

China/Indonesia/Philippines/Malaysia/Vietnam/South China Sea: Hunt for Oil and Gas Increases Risk of Flashpoints in South China Sea, Report Says

Mar 8, 2023 | Radio Free Asia

Almost all the claimants in the South China Sea are moving forward with new oil and gas exploration projects this year, heightening the risk of…

IWD23 Protecting Women Environmental Defenders in Conflict

Mar 8, 2023 | Peixuan Xie

Environmental defenders, or environmental human rights defenders, are individuals and groups who strive to protect and promote human rights relating to the environment, by protecting…

Women Are Necessary for Ukraine’s Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction

Mar 8, 2023 | Jess Keller

Ukrainian women and civil society organizations (CSOs) are on the frontlines of the war advancing peace and security. Women have taken on new roles and…

Ukraine: Facing Minefields and Cash Crunch, Ukraine Farmers to Sow Smaller Crop

Mar 7, 2023 | Rod Nickel and Pavel Polityuk, Reuters

Facing fields full of mines and short of cash, many Ukrainian farmers are likely to sow a smaller area this spring than they did following…

Myanmar: From Taiwan to Turkey and Beyond: How Deforestation Inc Exposed the Teak Trade from Myanmar

Mar 7, 2023 | Scilla Alecci, International Consortium of Inevtigative Journalists

A new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and media partners around the world exposed how Western governments have failed to stop the…

Ukraine: How the War Is Making Soil and Water Toxic

Mar 7, 2023 | Julia Vergin, Deutsche Welle

At some point, the war in Ukraine will end, hopefully. But even when it does, when the deathly explosions of all the rockets and bombs…

Forests: Conservationists Decry Palm Oil Giants’ Exit from HCSA Forest Protection Group

Mar 7, 2023 | Hans Nicholas Jong, Mongabay

Two major palm oil companies recently exited a committee that helps identify forest areas for protection, bringing the total number of firms quitting the framework…

International Women’s Day: Our Planet Needs Gender Justice

Mar 7, 2023 | Friends of the Earth

Although women bear the brunt of environmental injustice, they’re also leading the way to save our planet. Find out why we celebrate International Women’s Day…