The Summit in Madrid in June this year was NATO’s most important Summit since 9/11. In addition to the release of the new Strategic Concept, a radical change in...
In the African continent, where both slow and fast onset climate events undermine economic and political stability, the linkage between climate change and...
Increasing rates of both deforestation and violence in the Brazilian Amazon are being driven by sprawling national and transnational criminal networks, a study...
The development of Africa was spotlighted at a key UN meeting on Wednesday, with attention focused on advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and...
A regional consultation launched by OSCE and adelphi brought together stakeholders from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to...
With the Pacific region being particularly vulnerable to the security impacts of climate change, UNDP, IOM, adelphi and project partners will develop the first...
A new report published by the multilaterally-backed climate security initiative Weathering Risk asks Superforecasters to answer seven questions about the next...
If we are to halt global warming and prevent future climate-related security risks, states should embrace the framework of strategies laid out by the IPCC...
A new report from the IPCC finds that the world could face a more than 3° Celsius increase in the global average temperature over pre-industrial levels based on...
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...
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...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the brakes on human mobility, with a particularly severe impact on those who depend on migration as a way to cope with economic...
COVID-19 has demonstrated yet again how all disaster risks interconnect – how a public health crisis can rapidly trigger an economic disaster and societal...
The United Nations Assistance Mission to Somalia (UNSOM) is one of the first political missions globally to have climate and environmental language in its...
In this interview, Ayan Mahamoud discusses her work to foster regional climate resilience in the Horn of Africa, through cross-border cooperation among the...
What before was 'clear' is now 'unequivocal': human activity is causing the climate to change rapidly and drastically, while threatening the environment and the...
After years of derision under the Trump administration, NATO members were looking forward to the summit on 14 June as a harbinger of closer and more predictable...
Africa's Great Lakes Region is aptly named: together, it harbours one quarter of the world's unfrozen freshwater. For the countries of the region, this bounty...