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Escalating Tigray Conflict Can Spiral into a Regional Water War

Dec 7, 2020 | Simon Wolfe

The power and communications blackouts that followed Ethiopia’s bombing of Tigray’s regional capital, Mekelle, are an ominous sign that this conflict is far from over…

Brazil: Women Are Still Not Heard in the Climate Policy Conversation

Dec 7, 2020 | Meghie Rodrigues

Climate change effects don’t have the same impact on everyone: Vulnerable groups always have it worse. This discrepancy is apparent even when these groups are…

Vietnam: Viet Nam and United Nations Convenes Global Conference to Accelerate Action on Global Commitments on Women, Peace and Security

Dec 7, 2020 | UN Women

As part of the continuing commemoration of 25 years of the Beijing Platform for Action on Women’s Empowerment and the 20th anniversary of landmark UN Security…

Colombia: Colombian Environmental Official Assassinated in Southern Meta Department

Dec 7, 2020 | Antonio José Paz Cardona, Mongabay

December 3, 2020 was a fateful day for the defense of the environment in Colombia. Javier Francisco Parra Cubillos, an official from regional environmental authority Cormacarena…

Afghanistan: Solar Power Provides a Lifeline to Afghanistan's Hospitals

Dec 6, 2020 | World Bank

Since it recorded its first COVID-19 case in February 2020—and incidentally, the first case in Afghanistan—the Herat province has logged the country's second-highest number of…

Afghanistan: 67 Mining Projects to be Offered for Bidding

Dec 6, 2020 | Wadsam

The High Economic Council (HEC) has approved 67 mining projects out of 108 proposed sites. The approved mining sites include construction materials, marble and garnet…

Iraq: Establishing a Sovereign Wealth Fund in Iraq

Dec 6, 2020 | Iraq Business News

Throughout history, financial crises have been met with innovative reform plans that help develop the resilience of a country's economic system, except when it comes…

Climate Change: Climate Change as a National Security and Foreign Policy Priority: Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Administration

Dec 4, 2020 | Mayesha Alam, Just Security

Addressing climate change is a central pillar of President-Elect Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. Signaling his commitment to the issue, Biden named former Secretary…

India/Pakistan: India's Kabul River Dam Support Likely to Unnerve Pakistan

Dec 4, 2020 | Water Dipomat

India has announced plans to build the Shahtoot Dam on Afghanistan’s Kabul River, which will help residents of Kabul but is likely to unsettle downstream…

South Sudan: New Players for Juba Solar PV-Plus-Storage Project

Dec 4, 2020 | Constructions Review Online

Two new companies, precisely the United Arab Emirates-based Asunim Solar and the renewable energy solutions consultancy company I-kWh company, have joined forces towards the implementation…

In the Words of Riko Nagu: “In Order to Build an Inclusive Society and a Resilient Community both Women and Men Should Work Together.

Dec 3, 2020 | Anastasiia Tiurmenko

The IGNR project presents a series of articles, the heroines of which are local leaders who participated in the Traditional Governance and Facilitation Bill consultations…

New Constitution Could Help Chile Avert the Lithium Curse

Dec 3, 2020 | Matthew Gallagher

Chile is on the cusp of a new era. Just as its lithium—a common element of energy storage technology, which is itself a critical component…

Liberia: Green Advocates Breaks New Ground

Dec 3, 2020 | Observer

At a ground-breaking event in the city of Saniquellie, Blei Forest outlying communities in Nimba have self-identified as first step in supporting customary tenure recognition…

How the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Must Change in Response to the Climate Crisis

Dec 3, 2020 | Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson

The 20th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 in October this year has been an occasion of reflection for feminist peace activists around the world. What has…

Reversing Conflict Minerals: Let’s Formalize Artisanal Mining for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Dec 2, 2020 | Jorden de Haan

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a largely informal industry, known for its close relations with armed conflict, organized crime, human rights abuses, and corruption.…

Climate Change, National Security, & the New Commander-in-Chief

Dec 2, 2020 | Mark Nevitt

President-elect Joe Biden is 50 days away from assuming office as commander-in-chief. He has committed to taking bold, historic action on climate change and has…

Afghanistan: UN Involved in Afghanistan Blockchain Land Registry Tool

Dec 2, 2020 | Ledger Insights

Later this month, the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) plans to launch a land registry solution for urban cities in Afghanistan called goLandRegistry. The project is a collaboration with…

More Women in Boardrooms Mean Better Climate Change Policy, Study Says

Dec 1, 2020 | Heesu Lee, Business Standard

Companies with greater gender diversity in their boardrooms show better performance on developing policies and methods to address climate change risks, according to BloombergNEF.

Climate War in the Sahel? Pastoral Insecurity in West Africa Is Not What It Seems

Nov 30, 2020 | Leif Brottem

As violence in Mali and Burkina Faso reached a ten-year high this year, the West African Sahel appears to be experiencing the perfect storm of climate stress,…

Myanmar: Amid Tensions in Myanmar, an Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born

Nov 30, 2020 | Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360

The Salween Peace Park is being lauded as a model for conservation that draws less on Western science and more on ethnic cultural traditions of…

Myanmar: In Myanmar, Paul Sein Twa Helps Establish a Peace Park

Nov 30, 2020 | Madeleine Gregory, Sierra Club

The Salween River Basin—a strip of land on the border of Myanmar and Thailand—has been a site of conflict since before Paul Sein Twa was…

Liberia: Miners and Loggers Fight over Community Forest in Gbarpolu

Nov 30, 2020 | Mark N. Mengonfia, New Republic

In March last year, Korninga B Community Forest signed an agreement with Indo Africa Plantation Liberia to allow logging in its forest, which stretches across…

Call for Abstracts for Presentations at Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia” (Deadline: 2020-12-31)

Nov 30, 2020 | Environmental Law Institute, Global Green Growth Institute, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, UNDP, Externado de Colombia University, and Duke University’s Center for International and Global Studies and Nicholas School of the Environment

Abstracts are sought for presentations and posters to be delivered at a conference and policy dialogue on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia.” This event…