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...
A new report published by the multilaterally-backed climate security initiative Weathering Risk asks Superforecasters to answer seven questions about the next...
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...
As part of the Wilson Center “backdraft" series on the unintended consequences of climate change responses, this article argues how environment, climate, and...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
Biotechnology can aid conventional agriculture in major food producing countries such as Argentina by incorporating genetic material into crops. But its use is...
The war in Ukraine holds a hard lesson about our failure to face up to the climate crisis. We must heed lessons of the recent past and rise up to meet the...
Whilst at first sight it may not seem explicitly so, the new IPCC report contains a lot of important findings on the links between climate change and conflict...
Putin’s chilling invasion of Ukraine last week has been a wakeup call on the threats to international peace and security. The IPCC report published yesterday is...
The climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface temperature of...
Progress has stalled for the time being on a United Nations Security Council Resolution on climate security. However, a recent communique from the African Union...
Women are disproportionately affected by environmental catastrophes and crimes, even as they remain at the forefront of efforts to resist them. A more holistic...
Sufficient supply is essential for global food security, but an overemphasis on availability overshadows more pressing issues, such as climate change...
Clearing dangerous military waste saves lives, but the clearing process sometimes damages the environment and leaves communities vulnerable to land grabbing...
What before was 'clear' is now 'unequivocal': human activity is causing the climate to change rapidly and drastically, while threatening the environment and the...
Women are crucial actors in managing water resources and conflicts, yet their perspectives are often missing from high-level decision making. Removing barriers...
What can climate security learn from the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda? The two agendas share the need for urgent, context-specific, interdisciplinary...