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Liberia: Review Finds Palm Oil Firm Golden Veroleum Cleared Carbon-Rich Liberian Forests
Mar 3, 2021
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Ashoka Mukpo, Mongabay
In another blow to the Liberia-based palm oil company Golden Veroleum, an investigation by an independent grievance panel has found that it bulldozed rainforests and…
Afghanistan: Decrease Rainfalls, Drought Worrying Afghans
Mar 3, 2021
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Afghanistan Times
The severe droughts caused by frequent lack of rainfalls and snowfalls are worrying people in Afghanistan especially in the rural areas where people are mostly…
Junior Scholars Review Environmental Peacebuilding Literature
Mar 2, 2021
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Rohini Thakkar and Gianluca Corinaldesi, Duke University Center for International & Global Studies
Scholars and Duke alumnae McKenzie Frances Johnson and Luz Angela Rodríguez spoke on February 18, 2021 at the DUCIGS event: “Junior Scholars in Conversation: Comparative…
Syria: Environmental Ruin Could Make Postwar Syria Unlivable [Audio]
Mar 2, 2021
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Kira Walker, World Politics Review
After nearly a decade of conflict, the extensive damage inflicted on Syria’s environment is emerging as another devastating, if less visible, tragedy of its civil…
Colombia: Colombia to Focus on Illegal Mining, Formalization of Small Miners in 2021
Mar 2, 2021
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BNamericas
Colombia is currently making efforts to diversify its mining sector while boosting the country’s economy, and this year authorities will focus on two specific issues…
4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)
Mar 1, 2021
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Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless
Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…
International Women’s Day, 2021 Gender Equality is Our Captain for Sailing to a Green & Just Recovery
Mar 1, 2021
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Jennifer Morgan
The climate crisis doesn’t stop for anyone or anything, not even the pandemic that has forced billions of us to radically overhaul our lives. And…
Sudan: Sudan Imposes New Controls over Gold Trade
Mar 1, 2021
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Middle East Monitor
Sudanese yesterday announced the adoption of a new plan to reform its economy based on imposing controls over smuggling gold, the New Khaleej reported. The…
Liberia: Government, Development Partners Petitioned to Support Customary Land Formalization Process
Mar 1, 2021
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Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa
4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)
Mar 1, 2021
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Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless
Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…
Bangladesh: Climate Change in Bangladesh to ‘Impact Int’l Security’: Muniruzzaman
Feb 28, 2021
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United News of Bangladesh
President of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security (BIPSS) Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman on Sunday talked about the risks Bangladesh faces as a frontline…
Is It Time for “Ecocide” to become an International Crime?
Feb 28, 2021
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Economist
In November last year a group of international lawyers set about formally defining ecocide. The panel—which is co-chaired by Philippe Sands, a lawyer who has…
Liberia: Weah Frowns at Border Disputes in South-Eastern Counties
Feb 28, 2021
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Alvin Worzi, Observer
President George M. Weah has announced the setting-up of special a committee compromising elders, chiefs and members of the legislative caucuses of Maryland, River Gee…
Iraq: In Oil-Rich Iraq, a Few Women Buck Norms, Take Rig Site Jobs
Feb 28, 2021
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Samya Kullab, Associated Press
Zainab Amjad and Ayat Rawthan, both 24, are among just a handful who have eschewed the dreary office jobs typically handed to female petroleum engineers…
Climate-Conflict Research: A Decade of Scientific Progress
Feb 28, 2021
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Halvard Buhaug and Nina von Uexkull
The last decade was the warmest on record, with 2020 tied with 2016 for the all-time high average annual global temperature. This 10-year period also saw…
The Impact of Climate Change on Peace and Security in Somalia: Implications for AMISOM
Feb 28, 2021
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Kheira Tarif and Anab Ovidie Grand
The February 2021 mandate renewal for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is an opportunity to review what we know about climate change and…
Climate Change, Conflict: What Is Fuelling the Lake Chad Crisis
Feb 28, 2021
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Abhijit Mohanty, Kieran Robson, Samuel Ngueping, and Swayam Sampurna Nanda
One of Africa’s largest freshwater bodies, the Lake Chad, has shrunk by 90 per cent. Over 10 million people across the region are in need…
How Much Oil and Gas Is Contained in the South China Sea?
Feb 28, 2021
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Ethen Kim Lieser
Stretching from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan, the South China Sea long has been considered one of the…
Afghanistan: MEAL Advisor – Consultancy
Feb 28, 2021
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Medair
Medair implements emergency nutrition, health, WASH and food security projects targeting displaced, conflict- and drought-affected vulnerable populations in central and southern Afghanistan. Resilience and early…
Liberia: LLA Launches ‘Land Conflict’ Awareness In Maryland County
Feb 27, 2021
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E. Varney Kamah, Global News Network
As land conflict has become a serious problem in Maryland County, Liberia at the official lunching of the Awareness Campaign on the dissemination of information…
Ghana: Nomads-Farmers’ Conflict: Security Analyst Urges Ghana to Enact Ranching Law
Feb 27, 2021
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GhanaWeb
Dr Festus Kofi Aubyn, a Security Analyst, has urged the Government to enact a Cattle Ranching Law, as part of measures to address the perennial…
South Sudan: Influential South Sudan Chiefs Warn of Conflict over Land Grabs
Feb 26, 2021
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Winnie Cirino, Voice of America
Ten traditional chiefs from South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state have demanded the state government stop a campaign of illegal land grabs and are threatening the…
India: Human Lives Lost to Wildlife-Human Conflict Should Be Compensated Better: Scientists
Feb 26, 2021
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Press Trust of India
The lives of people lost due to wildlife-human conflicts are not adequately compensated in India, according to a new study which says changing the approach…
Iraq: Decades after the Gulf War, Iraq’s Youth View Oil as a Curse
Feb 26, 2021
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Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera
Like most of the young people who joined Iraq’s countrywide demonstrations in 2019, musician Sally Mars took to the streets to demand that the government…
2021: A New Year Marked by New Rules against Conflict Minerals in the EU
Feb 25, 2021
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Agathe Smyth
While the news did not make the headlines, 1 January 2021 marked the culmination of a long civil society campaign as new European legislation on…
Liberia: Wildlife and Conservation Reporters Network Aided in the Confiscation of Protected Animal
Feb 25, 2021
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FrontPage Africa
The Confiscation Unit of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) with the aid of the Wildlife and Conservation Reporters Network have arrested a man for selling…
Yemen: Houthis Again Delay UN Examination of Loaded Oil Tanker
Feb 25, 2021
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Environment & Energy News
The United Nations said yesterday that new requests by Yemen's Houthi rebels will further delay U.N. experts from examining an oil tanker moored off the…
DRC: First Minerals Exported from DRC with Blockchain
Feb 24, 2021
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MINING.com
Minexx has exported minerals with full financial transparency from the Democratic Republic of Congo, by processing $250k of blockchain certified payments – a first for…
South Sudan: South Sudan Integrates Environmental Protection with Hydrocarbon Exploration
Feb 24, 2021
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Charné Hundermark, Africa Oil & Power
Despite holding the third-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa – estimated at 3.5 billion barrels – only 30% of South Sudan has been explored to…
The EU Military Sector’s Carbon Footprint
Feb 23, 2021
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Stuart Parkinson and Linsey Cottrell
Militaries are frequently exempt from publicly reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is currently no consolidated public reporting of GHG emissions for the…