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Women Underrepresented at COP27 Summit

Nov 18, 2022 | Caroline Kapp

Advocates have expressed concern that women are underrepresented at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference—or COP27—in Egypt this month. In 2011, countries pledged to increase…

Liberia: Promoting Women's Rights and Land Ownership in Liberia

Nov 17, 2022 | UNSDG

“In the past, women never owned land here but today, women, men, and youth can sit together with the elders and decide issues on land…

Myanmar: Myanmar Communities Decry Disempowerment as Forest Guardians Since 2021 Coup

Nov 17, 2022 | Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay

Strides have been made in forest protection over the past decade, but violent conflict, shrinking civic space and “rampant” natural resource extraction in the wake…

Natural resources and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace

Nov 17, 2022 | Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson

To build peace that is gender-just and sustainable, we need to start with two questions: What are the conditions of people’s lives at the end…

Tailoring Inclusive Solutions to Climate Finance: The Role of Individual and Collective Inclusion

Nov 17, 2022 | Manuel Bueno and Stephanie Landers Silva

Climate finance can and should be more inclusive of marginalized and underserved groups, including women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, low-income people, and people in remote areas.…

COP27: Lack of Women at Negotiations Raises Concern

Nov 16, 2022 | Esme Stallard, BBC

Too few women are participating in COP27 climate negotiations, charities, activists and politicians have warned.

Afghanistan: Coalmining in Afghanistan – in Pictures [Photos]

Nov 16, 2022 | Oliver Weiken, Guardian

From men in their 60s to boys as young as 10, hundreds of miners work every day in Chinarak for just a few euros.

Sahel: UN Warns of Worsening Conflict and Displacement in Sahel without Immediate Climate Action

Nov 16, 2022 | UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity…

Afghanistan: Pollution Increases as Kabul Residents Choose Coal over Wood

Nov 16, 2022 | Bibi Amina Hakimi, TOLOnews

The residents of Kabul said that as the price of wood remains high and they are obliged to use coal, which is causing air pollution…

Environmental Peacebuilding Is Resolving Conflicts Caused by Climate Change

Nov 16, 2022 | Vartika

Environmental cooperation is increasingly being utilized to resolve local problems induced by global warming. Environmental cooperation is increasingly being utilized to resolve local problems induced by global warming. Environmental…

At COP27 and Beyond, Women's Voices Belong at the Heart of Climate Change Negotiations

Nov 16, 2022 | Marisa O. Ensor

The United Nations Conferences of the Parties (COPs) are the largest climate-related conferences worldwide. During these meetings, nations have negotiated groundbreaking and legally binding climate…

DRC: Crucial Congo Rainforest Faces Growing Threats from Logging and Mining

Nov 15, 2022 | Madeleine Cuff, New Scientist

If the Amazon is the lungs of the world, then the Congo basin is its beating heart. This vast region in central Africa is home…

Colombia: In Colombia, Drilling Pays the Bills. The Country’s Leaders Want to Quit Oil.

Nov 15, 2022 | Max Bearak, New York Times

Over the past four decades, Colombia has pumped billions of barrels of oil from under a vast savanna it shares with neighboring Venezuela. Through pipelines,…

Iraq: Expanding Deserts, Searing Temperatures, and Dying Land: Climate Crises Deepen Struggle of Farmers [Video]

Nov 14, 2022 | International Committee of the Red Cross

Iraq has been burdened with wars, sanctions, and domestic conflict for over 40 years, but the potential economic and environmental fallout of the climate crisis…

Afghanistan: Women Human Rights Defenders Arrested by the Taliban Must Be Immediately Released

Nov 14, 2022 | Amnesty International

Responding to the arrests of at least three prominent women human rights defenders Zarifa Yaqoobi, Farhat Popalzai and Humaira Yusuf and their colleagues by the…

At COP27, Our Climate Future is Female: A Progress Report on Implementing U.S. Efforts to Advance Women and Girls’ Climate Action

Nov 14, 2022 | US Department of State

On November 14, 2022, Gender Day at COP27, the U.S. government is proud to announce the following strategies, initiatives, and programs addressing the disproportionate impacts…

The United States: USAID Advances Global Climate Action and Gender Equality

Nov 14, 2022 | USAID

At COP27, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a suite of programs to advance gender-responsive climate action.

Ukraine: Ukraine's Environmental Damage from War Will Take Years to Clean up [Photos]

Nov 14, 2022 | Associated Press

As the environmental harm brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine mounts, experts are warning of long-term health consequences for the population.

My Land: Rural Women's Struggle

Nov 14, 2022 | Carlos Parra

As the strains of a typical Colombian vallenato play in the background, Yimis Severiche Montes holds up the title deed from the National Land Agency…

Liberia: Liberian Senate Raises Concerns over Mining Sector amid Widespread Illicit Activities

Nov 14, 2022 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa

The Liberian Senate is seeking information from the Ministry of Mines and Energy regarding the operation of the small to medium-scale mining sub-sector. This is…

Filling the Basket of Knowledge: Workshop on Climate Change, Human Mobility and Peacebuilding in the Pacific

Nov 14, 2022 | Volker Boege, Toda Peace Institute

While UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his opening speech at this year’s COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheik on 7 November stated that humanity is…

Helping Asia-Pacific Women to Overcome Climate Disasters

Nov 14, 2022 | Sarah Knibbs, Dechen Tsering and Annamaria Oltorp

The disastrous floods in Pakistan have proven, yet again, that our climate crisis disproportionately hurts women. Of the 33 million people affected, nearly 70 per…

USAID's Best Practices for Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Work

Nov 14, 2022 | M. Mena

Gender inequality exacerbates the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, and it is a barrier to achieving climate change goals. However, we…

How Climate Discussions Connect to Security

Nov 14, 2022 | Homeland Security Today

Negotiations at COP27 will occur against a highly charged geopolitical landscape, given the Russian invasion of Ukraine and heightened competition between the United States and…

Ukraine: Kherson Mayor Warns of ‘Critical’ Water Shortages - as It Happened

Nov 13, 2022 | Joe Middleton, Emine Sinmaz, and Adam Fulton, Guardian

Roman Holovnia said the humanitarian situation in the liberated city was ‘severe’ with a lack of medicine and bread