Security was inseparable from the climate talks in Paris, from the safety of conference participants to how climate change impacts the stability of nations. Though the “Paris Agreement,” as t...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/12/tracking-national-security-paris-outcome/
According to recent polling, climate change is seen as the single most threatening international challenge around the world, and there’s evidence that all that worry is taking a psychological t...
Some of the world’s most crucial ecosystems can also be found in the most conflicted areas. The most progressive peace agreements in these circumstances sometimes include conservation protectio...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/09/examining-womens-inclusion-peace-conservation-efforts/
“We stop treating ‘adaptation’ like a sector,” says John Furlow, climate change specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in this week’s podcast, “but star...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/08/john-furlow-coordination-climate-adaptation/
“The relationship between human health…and environmental changes is extremely complex,” says Sally Edwards, advisor for sustainable development and environmental health of the Pan-American ...
Just a few years ago, progress on global family planning and reproductive health policy seemed to be stuck in a rut. “For 20 years, development money for health had been directed to fight HIV a...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/08/engaging-decision-makers-family-planning-ideas/
Rich in natural resources, poor in nearly every human development indicator. The description applies to many of the most-conflict ridden states in the world, but also to a region often forgotten ...
If you’re a government pondering the development of newly discovered natural resources, how do you avoid the so-called “resource curse” – the tendency of high value extractive resources, ...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/08/search-higher-returns-extractive-industries-build-peace/
“Perhaps I’m a case study for what happens in the federal government when we start on a tough problem,” says Alice Hill, the senior director for resilience policy at the National Security C...
As momentum builds towards the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals and UN climate change summit later this year, the G7 countries – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, the UK, a...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/07/climate-peace-action-climate-fragility-risks-report-launch/
The stakes are high for the UN climate conference in Paris later this year, so high in fact, some scholars feel it’s foolish to be putting all our eggs in one basket. The stakes are high for th...
A new report prepared by the UN Environment Program and UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (known as MONUSCO) found that just two percent of the total value of illicit ...
With thousands of scientists representing 195 countries working for more than a quarter of a century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world’s leading authority on of...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/06/climate-change-world-violent-author-rewrite-ipcc-chapter/
Between the Sahara to the north and savanna to the south lies the semi-arid Sahel, a region stretching from Senegal to Sudan that has experienced desperate poverty, climate change, malnutrition, ...
“The Sahel faces huge problems,” says Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel professor of public policy at George Mason University and Wilson Center global fellow, in this week’s pod...