Deforestation has reached alarming levels in Bolivia. One of the main drivers of tree cover loss – loss of the canopy – is the rise in slash-and-burn land...
In Bolivia, prospectors are digging craters and poisoning rivers in Madidi National Park. This natural treasure stretches from the Andes to the Amazon...
The climate diplomacy podcast gives insights into the latest developments in international climate diplomacy. Our hosts Raquel Munayer and Alexandra Steinkraus...
The second half of the implementation period agreed for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is now under way. To this end, the Economic Commission for...
It has been more than one year since the gavel came down at the last UN biodiversity summit, where almost every country in the world agreed on a plan to protect...
Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed as highly vulnerable to climate change while at the same time possessing skills and knowledge that are critical to the...
The Escazú Agreement is a legal instrument for environmental protection, but it is also a human rights treaty. Its main beneficiaries are the people of the...
This report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural...
The Van Gujjars – a pastoralist community in the Indian state of Uttarakhand – are on the frontline of climate change, but their role in forest management is...
The EU’s law to restore nature was recently given the green light by the European parliament. The long-awaited “nature restoration” law aims to repair the EU’s...
This paper lists existing guidance notes on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in conflict contexts, as well as outlines key lessons to successfully implement NbS in...
The intensity and visibility of wartime environmental damage in Ukraine has helped focus attention on who is collecting data, and for what purpose. On the...
The hard-fought resolution, which was proposed by Ukraine, is the assembly’s third and potentially most impactful text on the environmental dimensions of armed...
The COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace was formally launched at COP28 on 3 December to focus on climate finance for highly vulnerable...
El Salvador is one of the countries forming the Central American Dry Corridor. The Central American Dry Corridor faces poor distribution of irregular rain...
As exclusion is a key driver of climate vulnerability, insecurity and conflict, climate action for peace can only happen in conjunction with a focus on...
People and animals are faced with emergency in one of the planet’s most water-rich regions, as impacts of El Niño, Atlantic warming and deforestation collide
On 6 October, the climate security community of practice met in Berlin to examine the most urgent and cutting-edge issues in climate and security today, to...