Faced with growing water scarcity and rising tensions, farmers, tribal leaders, community representatives and local authorities came together in July 2025 to...
A Peruvian mountain farmer lost his legal case against energy giant RWE, climate litigators lost the battle but not the war, argues Noah Walker-Crawford.
The infrastructure powering artificial intelligence (AI) has become both a political flashpoint and a signal for strategic warfare with significant military...
Evidence increasingly shows that climate change can undermine human security and, in many contexts, can interact with conflict and fragility. These links are...
Financial markets already price climate transition risk into sovereign bond yields. Carmelo Arena, Stefania Basiglio, Andrea Comandé, Giray Gozgor and Jing Li...
In Ghana’s transitional ecological belt, where once-dense forests are steadily giving way to savannah, climate change is no longer a distant concern but an...
Environmental experts are warning that the ongoing war in the Gulf region is likely to leave a legacy of severe and long-lasting environmental damage, extending...
Development practitioners enter the field hoping to make the world a better place. Yet, too often, they become jaded and cynical over time. The bureaucratic...
Syria's environmental recovery remains an "entirely unanswered question" — and the stakes could not be higher. More trees are still being cut down than...
Responsibility for climate-related security risks falls to different institutions within the United Nations system. In recent years, progress has been made to...
In Lagos, a maize seller recently doubled her prices within a single year. In Morocco, pipelines stretch across barren plains, carrying desalinated water to...
The global energy transition is often framed as a balancing act between climate commitments on one hand, and sufficient energy and economic security on the...
Rising temperatures are inflaming old tensions and creating new fault lines in fragile states. Only integrated, locally led action can build the resilience...
A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new efforts to “strengthen” climate targets have been launched at the COP30...
