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  • COP27: Growing Roles for Agriculture and Food Security

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 30, 2022  //  By Kelly Witkowski
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    Every year, more than two billion farmers around the world work the land day in and day out to earn a living and produce what is needed to feed and clothe an ever-growing global population that reached 8 billion in November 2022. Though they bear the brunt of climate change on the front lines, many of the world’s farmers, ranchers and fishers are unaware of the international processes that affect their livelihoods.

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  • COP27 in Egypt: Putting Human Rights on the Climate Agenda

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 29, 2022  //  By Arona Baigal & Jocelyn Trainer
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    Cairo hoped that COP27 would focus on its stated agenda: climate change adaptation. Yet it was human rights concerns—such as jailed pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s hunger strike and rumors of restricted internet access to human rights platforms—that often stole headlines from climate policy or funding pledges. The persistence of human rights coverage demonstrated that Egypt and many other governments fail to recognize that strong governance, human rights protections, and climate change adaptation are mutually reinforcing and have overlapping policy actions.

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  • Leveraging Hydropower for Peace

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 24, 2022  //  By Emilie Broek & Kyungmee Kim

    7190166405_99f18613e2_cHydropower is the largest source of low-carbon electricity in the world today. And its benefits are needed more than ever. The International Energy Agency estimates that we will need to double the amount of installed hydropower capacity—which stands today at around 1360 gigawatts worldwide—in order to limit the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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  • Climate Finance: Taking Stock of Investments and Opportunities to Sustain Peace

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 18, 2022  //  By Cesare M. Scartozzi, Adam Savelli & Giulia Caroli
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    A new contribution in a continuing series examining “backdraft” —the unintended consequences of climate change responses—and how its effects might be anticipated and minimized to avoid conflict and promote peace.

    A key pillar of the UNFCCC was a commitment by industrialized nations to cover the incremental cost of climate change mitigation for developing countries. As part of this pledge, they agreed to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020 and maintain that level of funding up to 2025. While there are questions on whether this target has been met, climate finance has undeniably become one of the largest channels of wealth redistribution from developed to developing countries.

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  • Responsible Research Won’t Be Enough to Control Solar Geoengineering

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 12, 2022  //  By Whit Henderson

    As climate change worsens, the once-unimaginable power to use technology to cool the planet—a method known as “solar geoengineering”—has quietly entered the realm of possibility. Yet the prospect of developing such planet-altering technologies has launched an intense debate: Can this be achieved responsibly? Should it be attempted at all?

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  • Preventing Water Conflict Through Dialogue

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 2, 2022  //  By Ken Conca
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    A new contribution in a continuing series examining “backdraft“—the unintended consequences of climate change responses—and how its effects might be anticipated and minimized to avoid conflict and promote peace.

    When considering the potential effects of “backdraft” on climate change responses, the question of the world’s water future may be the most salient of all—especially as we examine water supplies and freshwater ecosystem health.

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  • Redefining National Security

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 28, 2022  //  By Carol Dumaine
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    This article is adapted from an article previously published in Issues in Science and Technology. 

    As Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine continues, the world’s focus is rightfully on ending this conflict as soon as possible. But the global impact of a senseless war launched by a petro-dictator also calls for deeper reflection.  

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  • Environmental Change, Migration, and Peace in the Northern Triangle

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    Guest Contributor  //  On the Beat  //  March 14, 2022  //  By Jill Baggerman
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    “There is a growing recognition that climate change is going to affect security and it’s increasingly shaping peoples’ decisions about where to move, where to live, and how to plan their futures, but how migration, climate, and insecurity connect and drive risks is not always as clear cut as the headlines would have us believe,” said Cynthia Brady, Global Fellow and Senior Advisor with the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, at last month’s International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding. The roundtable discussion, “Environmental Change, Migration, and Peace in Central America’s Northern Triangle” drew on the Wilson Center’s framework to improve predictive capabilities for security risks posed by a changing climate, developed in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Applying the framework to the Northern Triangle—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador—panelists discussed complex challenges and proactive approaches for building climate resilience and adaptive capacity. 

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