Claire Doyle
Claire Doyle is a master's student in Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a bachelor's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and previously interned with the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the World Food Programme. She also worked with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, where she oversaw capacity development projects on climate resilience and food sovereignty. Her research interests focus on the intersection of environmental change, human rights, and development, with particular attention to conflict-affected areas.
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Mobile Clinics and Mental Health Care: The NGO Response to Ukraine’s Health Crises
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The war in Ukraine is not only displacing millions, straining the economy, and ravaging infrastructure. It’s also creating a mounting health crisis. In this week’s New Security Broadcast, ECSP’s Director Lauren Risi hears from Ambassador Daniel Speckhard and Dr. Mariia Dolynska about the health impacts created by the war in Ukraine and what is still needed to strengthen the health system—as well as what one NGO is doing to deliver healthcare in the embattled nation. -
Creating a Just Transition in Green Minerals: A New Video from the Wilson Center and its Partners
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We need minerals to build the solar panels, wind turbines, and other technologies that will decarbonize our economies—and we need a lot of them. The World Bank estimates that demand for lithium, cobalt, and graphite could jump by as much as 500 percent by 2050. Yet mining for these resources has had a fraught history, and it continues to be associated with a hefty list of human rights and conflict risks, including violence, child labor, poor working conditions, land rights abuses, environmental damage and pollution, and a lack of community participation.
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Community-centered Approaches to Green Mineral Mining: A Conversation With Pact’s Roger-Mark De Souza
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According to the World Bank, building enough renewable energy infrastructure to keep global warming below 2C will require more than 3 billion tons of minerals. Reducing emissions quickly is crucial to minimizing risk for the world’s most climate-vulnerable communities, many of whom are on the front lines of a crisis they did not create. But unless we are careful, ramping up mining in order to decarbonize could actually worsen inequity and injustice. “How do we do this quickly, safely, and sustainably, in ways that benefit all?” asks Lauren Risi, Director of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program in this week’s New Security Broadcast.
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What Better Looks Like: Breaking the Critical Minerals Resource Curse
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In recent years, the urgency of climate action has brought fresh attention to the critical minerals sector. Growing renewable energy investments are driving up demand for resources like lithium, cobalt, and copper, which form the mineral backbone of green technologies. But there are substantial concerns to navigate when it comes to sourcing green energy minerals.
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Catastrophe and Catalyst: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister on His Nation’s Climate Tragedy
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On a recent visit to the Wilson Center, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari remarked on the historic nature of the monsoon-related floods that have submerged a huge swath of his country over the last several months.
“These are no normal monsoons and no normal floods,” said Zardari. “We are used to monsoons. We are used to floods. We have provincial mechanisms [and] national mechanisms to deal with such disasters. What we were not prepared for was for floods to descend from the sky.”
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Addressing the Global Food Crisis: CIMMYT Experts Weigh In
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The confluence of climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine have placed enormous stress on food systems across the globe. Food insecurity spiked in 2020 and has stayed high, and the number of undernourished people is on the rise. -
Confronting Seismic Shocks: New WQ Article Looks at “Russia’s War on Natural Resources”
›July 29, 2022 // By Claire Doyle
When Russia struck a deal with Ukraine on July 15, there was hope that millions of tons of food would once again be able to flow from the embattled country. Under the agreement, brokered by Turkey and the UN, Russia would lift naval blockades and allow large-scale shipments of grain to leave Ukraine’s ports. -
Top 5 Posts for May 2022
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In Iraq, climate change is adding stress to an already precarious situation. Weak public services, growing unemployment, fossil fuel-related environmental and health hazards, and other factors have generated high levels of social vulnerability and contributed to recent protests. In the top post for May, Dylan O’Driscoll and Shivan Fazil write about how, against this fragile backdrop, insecurity is heightened by increasingly deadly flash floods and more frequent dust storms that pose a public health threat.
