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A Roadmap For a Greener, Gender-Inclusive Future

Jul 2, 2024 | Nathalie A. Gabala and Emmanuel Nyirinkindi

Many companies in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) are now prioritizing climate action and advancing gender inclusiveness. However, there are still too few bringing…

Towards a Common Vision of Climate, Peace, Security and Migration in Zimbabwe

Jul 1, 2024 | Giulia Caroli, Cedric De Coning, Gracsious Maviza, Joram Tarusarira, Henintsoa Onivola Minoarivelo, and Nqobile Moyo

Zimbabwe is one of the countries in Southern Africa most affected by climate variability and change. This year, Zimbabwe experienced its worst drought in decades, affecting…

South Sudan: Antelope Poaching on rise in South Sudan

Jun 29, 2024 | Associated Press

Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what conservationists…

South Sudan: Antelope Poaching on Rise in South Sudan

Jun 29, 2024 | Voice of America

Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what conservationists…

In Cameroon, Breaking Barriers for Women in Restoration

Jun 29, 2024 | Monica Evans & Laurianne Mefan

Restoring land and reducing its degradation is crucial for Cameroon’s sustainable development and long-term resilience. Over 70 percent of the population depend on agriculture for…

South Sudan: Block 1,2,4 Oil Fields Vandalized in Recent Inter-communal Violence

Jun 29, 2024 | Michael Daniel

The Ministry of Petroleum said some oil facilities in the region encompassing Unity State and Ruweng Administrative Area were vandalized and operation was affected following…

Women Lead Sustainable Livestock Farming near the Colombian Amazon Rainforest

Jun 28, 2024 | Sean Mattson

Women in Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest biome highly value trees on their small-scale livestock farms. Better integration of farmers' motivations to conserve the environment could support…

Renewable Energy as a Tool for Peace: Emerging Opportunities and New Challenges

Jun 28, 2024 | Energy Peace Partners

Renewable energy can offer a multi-pronged solution that can provide numerous benefits, especially in fragile countries: those most affected by conflict and climate risks, and…

UN Action on Gender and Climate Faces Uphill Climb As Warming Hurts Women

Jun 28, 2024 | Daisy Clague

In poor households without taps, the responsibility for collecting water typically falls on women and girls. As climate change makes water scarcer and they have…

Tackling Gender Disparity in Land Ownership in FCT

Jun 27, 2024 | Emmanuel Chisom

Land is one the most valued properties in the world. It is not for nothing that famous economic scholar, Adam Smith, classified it as one of the…

Health Equity and Gender Equality in a More Violent World

Jun 26, 2024 | Valerie Percival

Violence and instability are rising around the world. Researchers recorded 2022 as the "deadliest year since the Rwandan genocide in 1994" and 2023 as experiencing the highest number of…

How to Advance Peace and Security Through a Climate and Gender Lens? Reflections From Youth at the UN Women’s GEN-Forum 2024

Jun 25, 2024 | Clare Steiner & Khaing Su Lwin

The unfolding triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in the Asia-Pacific region has critical implications for human security, conflict, and inequality. Climate…

How to Make Locally Led Climate Adaptation Finance More Gender Responsive

Jun 25, 2024 | Ntezi Mbabazi & Rose Pinnington

Northern donors are making efforts to fund local actors more directly and enable greater local leadership, notably within climate adaptation programming aiming to promote gender equality. And…

Remote: Social Inclusion Research Opportunity

Jun 25, 2024 | Environmental Law Institute

The Environmental Law Institute is seeking Visiting Researchers (graduate degree holders or professionals), Law Clerks (current law students), and Research Interns (current or recent undergraduates)…

South Sudan: South Sudan Revenge Attack Sparked by Cattle Raid Kills 17

Jun 24, 2024 | Reuters

A revenge attack triggered by a cattle raid earlier this month has killed at least 17 people in northern South Sudan and forced oil workers…

Barriers to the Engagement of Women in UN Peace Operations

Jun 24, 2024 | Eleanor Gordon

Women’s meaningful participation in peace operations is critical to building sustainable peace. Yet, women continue to be marginalised, especially in senior roles, because of organisational,…

Flowing Together: Peace and Conflict’s Role in Socio-Hydrology

Jun 24, 2024 | Stefan Doring, Kyungmee Kim, and Ashok Swain

In an era where water scarcity and disputes over water rights increasingly shape global politics, understanding the nexus between water and peace is more critical…

Wars Cause Widespread Pollution and Environmental Damage − Here’s How to Address It in Peace Accords

Jun 23, 2024 | Richard Marcantonio and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez

Few agreements include environmental provisions, and even fewer see them carried out, even though research shows that many drivers of conflict can be directly or…

Niger: Coup-Hit Niger Was Betting on a China-backed Oil Pipeline as a Lifeline. Then the Troubles Began

Jun 22, 2024 | Associated Press

A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighoring Benin,…

Afghanistan: Climate Change Impacting Eradicating of Poppy Cultivation

Jun 22, 2024 | TOLOnews

The Washington Post reported that climate change is a serious challenge to eradicating drug production in Afghanistan. According to the report, climate change has made…

South Sudan: Illegal Poaching Threatens to Wipe out South Sudan’s Elephants and Other Wildlife

Jun 21, 2024 | Patrick Oyet, Channel News Asia

Nimule is one of six national parks and more than 10 game reserves covering over 13 per cent of South Sudan’s terrain. Many of the…

As Climate Change and Conflict Increase, New IUCN Reports Says Conservationists Need to Better Consider How They Engage with Migration and Displacement of Both Human and Other Species

Jun 21, 2024 | International Union for Conservation of Nature

In a thought-provoking new report titled "Planet on the Move", IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) underscores the need for a paradigm…

“Now What?” Addressing the Climate-Gender-Security Nexus at NATO

Jun 20, 2024 | Siena Cicarelli and Cori Fleser

At the 2021 Brussels Summit, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) endorsed its first-ever Climate Change and Security Action Plan, with the aim to “mainstream…

China/Philippines: ‘Only Pirates Do This’: Philippines Accuses China of Using Bladed Weapons in Major South China Sea Escalation

Jun 20, 2024 | CNN

The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with bladed weapons during a South China Sea clash earlier this week, a…

Afghanistan: Taliban Earn Nearly $90 Million from Mining, Oil Fields in Two Months

Jun 20, 2024 | Amu TV

In less than two months, the Taliban has generated nearly $90 million, equivalent to 63.9 billion Afghanis, from mining and oil field extractions in Afghanistan,…

Colombia: The Landmark Ruling against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”

Jun 20, 2024 | Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning

Last week, Chiquita Brands International — one of the world’s largest banana distributors — was found liable in a Florida court for financing a Colombian paramilitary group. The ruling marks a landmark…

Colombia: Colombia Faces Severe Food Insecurity Due to Conflict, Extreme Weather Patterns

Jun 20, 2024 | StringersHub

More than 4.5 million people in Colombia are facing severe levels of food insecurity, particularly in rural areas, due to armed conflicts, low income and…

The Hidden Crisis of Lake Chad: How Environmental Degradation Fuels Boko Haram

Jun 20, 2024 | Eleonora Cammarano

Situated in Central Africa, Lake Chad was once a flourishing freshwater reservoir that sustained the lives of more than 30 million people across Chad, Cameroon,…

Forests: How Effective Is the EU’s Marquee Policy to Reduce the Illegal Timber Trade?

Jun 19, 2024 | Mike Gaworecki, Mongabay

It’s extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to determine the full extent of the illicit production and trade of timber worldwide. Illegal loggers and the shadowy networks…

Risks and Restoration: Land as a Driver of Conflict and Cooperation

Jun 19, 2024 | Beatrice Mosello and Mary Potts

Land is crucial to people’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing, culture and identity. So disputes over access to or use of land are a prominent feature…