Sufficient supply is essential for global food security, but an overemphasis on availability overshadows more pressing issues, such as climate change...
WATCH: This panel discussion addressed the links between food insecurity, conflicts, and climate change, highlighting practitioners’ best practices for...
What can climate security learn from the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda? The two agendas share the need for urgent, context-specific, interdisciplinary...
Water deprivation is increasingly recognized as a political and security problem. Tensions resulting from the growing imbalance between global water demand and...
What exactly triggers food riots? At which point does climate change come in? And what can we learn from analyzing the lack and impotence of government action...
WATCH: The objectives of this session are to unpack the gender dimensions of climate-related security risks and point out opportunities for action. Speakers...
The mission of the Munich Security Conference is to “address the world’s most pressing security concerns”. These days, that means climate security: climate...
The momentum for climate action we are witnessing is extraordinary. Throughout 2019, millions of people took the streets all around the world to join the youth...
European peatlands could turn from carbon sinks to sources as a quarter have reached levels of dryness unsurpassed in a record stretching back 2,000 years...
The severity of desertification and its mutual relationship with climate change cannot be overstated. In light of the recent launch of the Special Report on...
Civil society engagement is essential for environmental protection, especially in cases where institutional frameworks are weak and governance is lacking. Often...
Originally planned as a demonstration against fuel tax hikes, the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) revolts have sparked national and global debates. Some view the...
Times of war can result in rapid environmental degradation as people struggle to survive and environmental management systems break down resulting in damage to...
The world risks crossing the point of no return on climate change, with disastrous consequences for people across the planet and the natural systems that...
A new report analyses how the transition to a low-carbon economy – and the minerals and metals required to make that shift – could affect fragility, conflict...
Population pressure, a lack of economic opportunities, environmental degradation, and new forms of travel are contributing to human displacement and unsafe...
There are only a few weeks to go before international and local leaders from states, regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society travel to the...
“Climate change is inextricably linked to some of the most pressing security challenges of our time,” said Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, echoing many...
Working with over 30 partners, the World Resources Institute (WRI) has recently launched the Resource Watch. The platform provides a wide array of data sets on...