A person’s water security is affected by their gender, as is their likelihood to hold decision making positions about this vital resource. To increase water...
The task for governments in the Sahel region of Africa is significant. They must tackle the persistent problem of extremism, which is being further complicated...
The security risks in the Sahel are not in opposition to climatic concerns. Indeed, understanding them may help unlock the possibility of more lasting solutions...
WATCH: The Sahel region is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts on human security, particularly food security and conflict potential. The Potsdam...
In the African continent, where both slow and fast onset climate events undermine economic and political stability, the linkage between climate change and...
Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded a...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
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...
The chapter 'Canada: Reframing a well-established partnership' in the book 'European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World', examines Canada and EU-Canada...
WATCH: In this panel discussion, representatives from the NSC, USAID, State Department, and NOAA, share perspectives as agencies with different mandates but a...
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...
United States President Joe Biden gathered world leaders on 22 April 2021 to raise climate ambition ahead of COP26 climate summit in the UK. For Latin America...
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...
“The more the United States can get itself back on track, the better position it is in to exercise climate leadership,” says Sue Biniaz, a member of Special...
Extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are expected to become more severe under future climate conditions. This implies a concern for policymakers...
The United States is at a critical juncture in its future climate policy directions. Biden’s electoral victory and the appointment of former Secretary of State...
WATCH: This session explores how rule of law approaches, including strengthening of legal and judicial systems, good governance and the empowerment of justice...
The pandemic and racial justice protests call for justice and crisis preparedness – an opportunity also to act on climate change. Successfully taking advantage...
Insecurity is plaguing north-western Nigeria, due to persistent herder-farmer tensions, rising crime and infiltration by Islamist militants. Federal and state...