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  • Europe
  • Climate Diplomacy
  • Have EU military “greening” policies had any effect?

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    A lack of reliable reporting means it is hard to gauge the effectiveness of environmental policy across EU militaries.

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  • Global Issues
  • Conflict Mitigation and Peacebuilding
  • War and the environment: UN adopts new principles

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    Governments have agreed a set of guidelines to protect the environment during and after wartime, the most significant legal update on the issue in 50 years.

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  • Latin America and Caribbean
  • Minerals and Mining
  • Responsible Business Conduct in the Extractive and Minerals Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    Natural resources play an important role for growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region is home to extensive reserves of metals and...

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  • Global Issues
  • Civil Society
  • What is the Right to a Healthy Environment?

    What is the right to a healthy environment COVER

    The recent recognition by the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a...

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  • Asia
  • Adaptation and Resilience
  • From the Factbook: Pakistan’s flood crisis and the case for and against dams

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    Could dams be (part of) the solution to the devastating floods that are currently hitting Pakistan? The idea has floated around for some time, but it has also...

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  • Global Issues
  • Conflict Mitigation and Peacebuilding
  • Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace

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    Fragile and conflict-affected situations, environmental degradation, and natural disasters are on the rise and threaten to reverse development gains. In the...

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  • Global Issues
  • Early Warning and Risk Analysis
  • Ecological Threat Report 2022: Analysing ecological threats, resilience & peace

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    This is the third edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), which analyses ecological threats in 228 independent states and territories. Produced by the...

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  • Global Issues
  • Forests and Biodiversity
  • Living Planet Report 2022: Building a nature-positive society

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    Today we face the double, interlinked emergencies of human-induced climate change and the loss of biodiversity, threatening the well-being of current and future...

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  • Security
  • The nature of conflict and peace: The links between environment, security and peace | BCSC 2022

    WATCH: Environmental degradation and biodiversity loss are important drivers of conflict, and increasingly impact global peace and security. This nature...

  • Global Issues
  • Forests and Biodiversity
  • The Nature of Conflict and Peace: The links between environment, security and peace | BCSC 2022

    WATCH: Environmental degradation and biodiversity loss are important drivers of conflict increasingly impacting global peace and security. This nature-security...

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  • Security
  • Weathering Risks within our Planetary Boundaries | BCSC 2022

    WATCH: The evidence is clear: climate change poses an increased risk to peace and stability by exacerbating drivers of conflict, whereby the most vulnerable...

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  • Asia
  • Land and Food
  • Floods after drought devastate Sindh’s agriculture

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    Massive monsoon flooding has followed a severe drought in Pakistan’s Sindh province, with experts saying that climate change is making farming ‘more challenging...

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  • Asia
  • Development and Finance
  • Unravelling the environmental dimensions of the Sri Lankan crisis

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    This article examines the environmental dimensions of the current crisis in Sri Lanka, the risks, and the way forward.

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  • Asia
  • Minerals and Mining
  • ‘Digging your own grave’: Illegal sand mining devastates Bihar’s rivers

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    This year, Bihar extended a seasonal ban on mining sand from its rivers. But illegal sand mining continues every day across the eastern Indian state.

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  • Global Issues
  • Forests and Biodiversity
  • COP15, the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade

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    An updated guide to the intergovernmental negotiations taking place in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada, that have a crucial role to play in halting...

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  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Water
  • Could cleaning the Tigris River help repair Iraq’s damaged reputation?

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    One man’s mission to remove trash from the polluted river in Baghdad has inspired a nationwide movement that shows how environmental efforts inspire peace.

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  • Global Issues
  • Civil Society
  • UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right

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    With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and...

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  • Global Issues
  • Land and Food
  • Emissions accounting in the food sector – an appetite for trade?

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    Much of the food that we consume today involves trade. However, climate targets, and the way in which emissions are reported, do not sufficiently reflect this...

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  • Global Issues
  • Security
  • The nature of conflict and peace: The links between environment, security and peace and their importance for the United Nations

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    A new report by WWF and adelphi looks at the complex nexus between nature and security. The report outlines four pathways through which environmental...

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  • Global Issues
  • Land and Food
  • Silence on land degradation when alarms should be sounding

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    The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has long been the poor relation of environmental conventions, but the problems are now too vast to ignore at COP15...

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