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Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdistan Region Faces Challenges to End Flaring

Aug 25, 2021 | Dilan Sirwan, Rudaw

The Kurdistan Region has given oil companies 18 months to stop flaring associated gas, a toxic byproduct of crude oil production that has been burned…

Afghanistan: Afghan women's hard-won land rights seen at risk under Taliban

Aug 25, 2021 | Rina Chandran

The Taliban's return to power threatens Afghan women's hard-won property rights, with thousands who fled their homes during the militants' takeover at particular risk of…

The Climate Crisis Is Worse for Women. Here’s Why.

Aug 24, 2021 | Lauren Jackson

The world’s leading climate scientists issued a landmark report this month with their clearest clarion call to date: The climate crisis is here, it’s humanity’s fault,…

Solomon Islands: Reconciling Customary Land and Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands

Aug 24, 2021 | Solomon Times

Three customary landholding groups in Masupa Village in the East ‘Are’are region of Malaita Province received their certificates of land recording completion in a hand-over…

Sudan: Ethiopian Forces Leave Disputed Abyei Area on Sudan Request

Aug 24, 2021 | Tesfa-Alem Tekle, Nation

The Sudanese government on Tuesday announced that the United Nations (UN) has agreed to withdraw its Ethiopian peacekeepers deployed in Abyei, a disputed area that…

Iraq/Syria: Drought Sparks Fears That Millions in Syria and Iraq Will Go without Water

Aug 24, 2021 | National

Millions of people in Syria and Iraq face going without water, electricity and food amid rising temperatures, a lack of rainfall and drought, international aid…

Liberia: Community Based CSOs Received Training In Gender Inclusion In Forest, Land Matters

Aug 24, 2021 | Global News Network

Community Based Organizations and Women Rights Groups in Bomi County have received training in gender inclusion in forest governance and land matters. The training was…

Water: Water Scarcity: What's the Big Deal?

Aug 23, 2021 | Stuart Braun, Deutsche Welle

Access to clean drinking water is a human right, but as the global population grows and the planet heats up, can we rely on this…

Myanmar: Deforestation Surge Continues amid Deepening Uncertainty in Myanmar

Aug 23, 2021 | Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay

Amid the political turmoil following the Feb. 1 military coup, it appears that deforestation is ramping up in Tanintharyi, echoing wider patterns across Myanmar. New…

Philippines: Sweden and UNDP Launch Partnership to Support Women, Peace and Security

Aug 23, 2021 | The Manila Times

The government of Sweden and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Philippines launched a new partnership to support the integration of the women,…

Why Addressing the Climate Crisis Can Help Build More Sustainable Peace

Aug 23, 2021 | Florian Krampe, Farah Hegazi, and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Thirty years of research underlies the realization that climate change poses substantial national, international and human security risks, but analysts have only recently shifted their…

Germany: Project Assistant

Aug 23, 2021 | adelphi

adelphi is an independent think tank and leading international public policy consultancy on climate, environment and development. Our 200-strong team of experts and specialists plays a…

CAR: WASH & Shelter Coordinator

Aug 23, 2021 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, providing emergencies and…

Somalia: Environment Impact Assessment Specialist

Aug 23, 2021 | Nordic International Support Foundation

The Nordic International Support Foundation (NIS) is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Oslo. NIS work with international donors, national governments, community leaders, national civil society…

Head of Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Africa

Aug 23, 2021 | Natural Justice

Based on the intersecting crises including environmental and climate, human rights abuses, patriarchy, race and inequality amongst others, Natural Justice is in a key phase…

DRC: Head of Logistics, Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Aug 23, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (OWR) for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working…

Myanmar: Freshwater Programme & Policy Manager

Aug 23, 2021 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction…

Switzerland: Private Sector and Technical Specialist - Central African Forest Initiative

Aug 23, 2021 | UNDP

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the…

Somalia: Senior International Hydrological Expert

Aug 23, 2021 | Government of Somalia

Somalia’s paradox as a country is that it is becoming increasingly water scarce and economically water dependent. In the north, over 80% of the country’s…

Philippines: Sweden and UNDP Launch Partnership to Support Women, Peace and Security

Aug 23, 2021 | The Manila Times

The government of Sweden and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Philippines launched a new partnership to support the integration of the women,…

How Ethiopia’s Conflict Has Affected Farming in Tigray

Aug 22, 2021 | Jan Nyssen, Emnet Negash, and Sofie Annys

Since fighting broke out in November 2020 between the Tigrayan regional government and the Ethiopian army, the conflict has wreaked havoc on the lives of…

Environmental Peacebuilding Awards: Call for Nominations

Aug 22, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association sponsors awards for leaders, practitioners, and researchers.

The Association is seeking nominations for awards to…

Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG Bans Gas Flaring: Minister

Aug 21, 2021 | Rudaw

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has ordered oil companies operating in the Kurdistan Region to cease the environmentally harmful practice of gas flaring. “Starting from…

Sherri Goodman

Senior Fellow
Wilson Center
Aug 21, 2021

Sherri Goodman is an executive, researcher, and lawyer bringing attention to the security challenges tied to environmental change and the ways to transform these risks…

Climate Change: How Climate Change Helped Strengthen the Taliban

Aug 20, 2021 | Cara Korte, CBS News

Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry.…

Amplify: Elevating Women’s Voices is Key to our Success in Tackling Climate Change

Aug 20, 2021 | Sierra Bien

After Climate Change Forced Her to Miss School, Meet the Activist Fighting Back

Aug 20, 2021 | Joe McCarthy

Aryaana Khan would rather not spend her days thinking about how humans are destroying the environment.

But no matter where she goes, the climate crisis has…

Climate Change: An Unstable World – What the IPCC Report Means for the Security Community

Aug 19, 2021 | Lindsey Wilkinson, Homeland Security Today

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) first section of its Sixth Assessment Report, ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science’ was recently released and while…

Afghanistan: Taliban's Return Clouds Plans for Afghan Resource Projects

Aug 19, 2021 | Tom Daly, Reuters

China could look to steal a march on wary western nations in developing resource projects in a Taliban-led Afghanistan, state media and industry sources say,…

Afghanistan: Afghan Women Are Already Fading From Public View as Fear of the Taliban and Uncertainty Prevail

Aug 19, 2021 | Margherita Stancati and Jessica Donati

Dr. Zuhal used to drive herself to work.

This week, she started taking a taxi to avoid reprisals from the Taliban, who once banned women from…