24 January 2024

Interview with Catherine Wong, Global Team Leader for Climate and Security Risk at the UNDP

On 28 November, PSI spoke to Catherine Wong, who serves as global team leader for Climate and Security Risk and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). We learned about her personal motivations and the tangible approaches implemented to reduce the negative security impacts of climate change.

22 January 2024

Climate change, geopolitics and food security: event summary

The following text is an excerpt from an event summary by the Center for Climate and Security. This report was written by Siena Cicarelli, Patricia Parera, and Ethan Wong, and  edited by Tom Ellison and Francesco Femia. This report summarizes the third roundtable in the series, Climate Change, Geopolitics, and Food Security: Implications for Europe, the United States, and Multilateralism, held in Brussels and virtually on 13 November 2023.

16 January 2024

3rd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

This summer the 3rd iteration of the International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding will be hosted in the Hague. It will be hosted jointly by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the Grotius Center for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. It will contain both a virtual and physical element with the virtual day scheduled for June 12. The physical begins on June 18 and will last until June 21. It includes training courses, business meetings, side events, and site visits.

11 January 2024

Climate security challenges in Iraq: Entry points for local-level dialogue

The following text is the executive summary from the full report by The Berghof Foundation and PEACE Paradigms.

11 January 2024

Climate finance and conflict: adaptation amid instability

The following text are the abstract and introduction of an academic article by Clionadh Raleigh, Andrew Linke, Sam Barrett, and Elham Kazemi, published in The Lancet Planetary Health. 

03 January 2024

Building climate resilience in conflict zones requires less emergency aid, not more

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. It was authored by Mauricio Vazquez, Head of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

 

29 December 2023

How Global Conflict Shapes the Green Transition

A global green transition—our best bet to counter climate change—has been underway for about 10 years. Countries around the world have begun to leverage the power of technology with the objective of moving to more sustainable sources of energy and to cut emissions and limit global mean temperature increases. This is the good news.

21 December 2023

Insights on Climate, Peace and Security

The following text is a summary of a new publication by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). Read the full paper here.

19 December 2023

Impacts of climate change on defence-related critical energy infrastructure

The following text is an abstract of a study published by the European Comission and the European Defence Agency. It was authored by Ricardo Tavares da Costa (European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre), Elisabeth Krausmann (European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre) and Constantinos Hadjisavvas (European Defence Agency). Read the full study here.

18 December 2023

Forgotten frontlines: looking at the climate finance going to fragile and conflict affected states in 2019-20

The following text is a summary of a press release by Oxfam International on 5 December 2023. Read the full document here.

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