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The blog of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program
  • Going Beyond “Conflict-free”: Transition Minerals Governance in DRC and Rwanda
  • Search for a Just Transition in China’s Shift Away from Coal
  • Supercharging US Mineral Exploration: A Call for Federal Support
  • How to Diversify Mineral Supply Chains – A Japanese Agency has Lessons for All
  • New Tool Offers Key Insights for Tackling Climate and Conflict Challenges
  • GOING BEYOND “CONFLICT-FREE”:
    TRANSITION MINERALS GOVERNANCE IN DRC AND RWANDA

  • SEARCH FOR A JUST TRANSITION IN
    CHINA’S SHIFT AWAY FROM COAL

  • SUPERCHARGING US MINERAL EXPLORATION:
    A CALL FOR FEDERAL SUPPORT

  • HOW TO DIVERSIFY MINERAL SUPPLY CHAINS–
    A JAPANESE AGENCY HAS LESSONS FOR ALL

  • NEW TOOL OFFERS KEY INSIGHTS FOR
    TACKLING CLIMATE AND CONFLICT CHALLENGES

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  • Unwrapping the Cucumber: Q&A with Friends of Nature’s Jinghua Sun on the Hidden Crisis of Produce Plastic Packaging

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  waste  //  July 3, 2025  //  By Ye Li

    A few days ago, I bought a cucumber at the grocery store. Hermetically sealed in a layer of plastic as if bracing itself for interstellar travel rather than a trip to my kitchen, I struggled to open it, my patience thinning with the plastic. At one point I considered using my teeth. That’s when it hit me: was this really necessary?

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  • Suspending the Indus Waters Treaty: What it Means and Why it Matters

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    June 18, 2025  //  By Jiedine I.A. Phanbuh

    On April 23, 2025, India announced the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) following an attack that killed more than 20 tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir. While the region’s history of political tensions and conflict has tested the treaty many times, the IWT has endured through wars, diplomatic freezes, and border conflicts. Although the two countries reached a ceasefire in May, the IWT remains suspended.

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  • Plotting the Future of U.S. Foreign Aid

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 3, 2025  //  By Steven Gale

    When Secretary of State Marco Rubio formally declared the “era” of USAID over on March 28, 2025, it represented an extraordinary sea change for US foreign aid deployed over the past six decades.

    Yet the world has changed dramatically since the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was established by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in the middle of the Cold War. So, there is every reason to thoughtfully consider what foreign aid should look like today as we navigate an era of Great Power Competition (GPC).

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | March 24 – 28

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    Eye On  //  March 28, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Marine Protected Areas in Tanzania Boost Living Standards (Mongabay)

    In the 1990s, Tanzania established five multiuse Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to help the country protect 30% of its oceans by 2030. However, a new study has found that the MPAs offered benefits beyond marine ecosystems by also improving the quality of life in nearby communities.

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  • Debunking the Patient Capital Myth: The Reality of China’s Resource-Backed Lending Practices

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  March 27, 2025  //  By David Landry & Keyi Tang

    Last year, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina called for the end of resource-backed loans (RBLs) for African countries, calling them “asymmetrical” and “non-transparent.” These loans—where governments pledge future resource revenues in exchange for infrastructure agreements—have been widely used across African countries with Chinese lenders playing a dominant role.

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  • In the Wake of a Tropical Cyclone: Turning to Violence or Building Peace?

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 24, 2025  //  By Elizabeth Tennant & Elisabeth Gilmore

    “It seems like the news is always bad, right?” observed retired climate and atmospheric scientist James Kossin in a BBC interview last autumn.

    Kossin was describing how climate change is weakening the wind shear patterns that have helped lessen the impacts of tropical cyclones in the United States. And, indeed, there is mounting evidence for his observation.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | March 17 – 21

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    Eye On  //  March 21, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Canal Projects Endanger Water Security in Pakistan’s Indus Delta (Al Jazeera)

    Dozens of villages in the Indus Delta have been submerged by the encroaching sea over recent years, pushing thousands to migrate inland. Now, local residents in Pakistan fear that new canal projects may further exacerbate water shortages in the region.

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  • Harnessing the Benefits of Water Cooperation in an Increasingly Complex World

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 21, 2025  //  By Susanne Schmeier, Melissa McCracken & Aaron Wolf

    In an era of apparent decline in international cooperation and rising crises, freshwater offers an area in which joint approaches remain absolutely essential—especially since water often transcends the boundaries of nation-states. 

    Cooperation has long been the preferred approach in dealing with water resources shared with neighboring countries. Since the first—and so far, only—water war in 2550 B.C.E., states have favored cooperative action over conflict to manage, protect, or develop our planet’s 313 transboundary surface water basins and 468 transboundary aquifers.

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