How can the risks associated with increased critical mineral production be addressed in Latin America? As outlined in a recent report published by the OECD and...
A new report published by the multilaterally-backed climate security initiative Weathering Risk asks Superforecasters to answer seven questions about the next...
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...
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...
What before was 'clear' is now 'unequivocal': human activity is causing the climate to change rapidly and drastically, while threatening the environment and the...
This independent report, commissioned by the G7 members in 2015, identifies seven compound climate-fragility risks that pose serious threats to the stability of...
Climate change contributes to the drivers of conflict and conflict affects peoples‘ adaptation capacities. This infographic looks into climate and fragility...
For the first time in the survey’s 10-year outlook, the top five global risks in terms of likelihood are all environmental. They are: extreme weather events...
Climate change is increasingly challenging global security and undermining peacebuilding efforts. UN Environment and the European Union have joined forces to...
A new form of organized crime has recently been emerging in the Amazon: illegal mining. Miners fell trees, use high-grade explosives for blasting soils and...
“When states face fragility and climate risks simultaneously, the risks and challenges are compounded,” according to The Intersection of Global Fragility and...
Resource consumption has grown exponentially over the past: between 1970 and 2010, the quantity of extracted materials has tripled. Not only the overall amount...
As the earth’s climate warms, people face mounting threats from rising seas, and more intense and frequent storms, heatwaves, fires, and droughts. When these...
With the Paris Agreement, countries committed to collectively limit global warming to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 °C above...
Finding domestic alternatives for rare earths has become a matter of national security, according to a recently released Pentagon report. The United States’...
The shift to a low-carbon economy is not only underway, it is accelerating. What does a rapid energy transition mean for the countries that supply the inputs...
A new USAID report focuses on the intersection of climate exposure and state fragility worldwide. It finds that the factors that make a country vulberable to...