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The blog of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program
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  • Calming the Waters: Why We Need to Better Integrate Climate and Water Policy

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 23, 2016  //  By Sabine Blumstein
    Niamey-Niger

    The Nile River is shared by 11 countries, for which it is vital for food and energy production, freshwater, and as a means of transportation. Sharing the resources of the Nile has, however, been politically difficult. Recently, the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has caused a major dispute with downstream Egypt which fears the dam will affect water flow in its own territory.

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  • Mobile Phone Data Helps Identify Displaced People Faster, Cheaper, More Accurately

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 18, 2016  //  By David J. Wrathall & Xin Lu
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    If we are to avert the worst of climate change impacts, we need better tools for identifying patterns of displacement and migration around climate extremes. In vulnerable developing countries, increasingly frequent and intense storms will likely exacerbate current patterns of displacement and permanent migration. Displacement often leads to humanitarian crises in the short term and can derail progress toward development in the long term. Because of this dangerous potential, displaced persons and migrants are a common focus in humanitarian responses. However disaster responders must often “fly blind” without the benefit of current, accurate information about the worst-affected populations. To better respond to the impacts of climate change as they unfold, we will need more rapid, cost-effective, and accurate methods for identifying patterns of displacement and migration.

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  • Africa’s Regional Powers Are Key to Climate Negotiations – But Will They Cooperate?

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 15, 2016  //  By Michael Byron Nelson
    Durban

    Most African states are more vulnerable and less prepared to address climate change challenges than the rest of the world. This observation is supported by a wide variety of sources, including the Climate Vulnerability Index and the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index. And in fact Africans and their political leaders frequently observe that this crisis, manufactured in the developed world, disproportionately affects their continent. During a meeting of the African Union in 2007, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called climate change “an act of aggression” by the rich against the poor.

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  • Shreya Mitra, Resilience Compass

    Lessons on Building Peace in Fragile Contexts From South Sudan

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    August 11, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Shreya Mitra, appeared on adelphi’s Resilience Compass blog.

    Earlier this month, armed clashes between competing factions of South Sudan’s government broke out in the capital Juba, a day after the nation’s fifth anniversary of its independence. The conflict dates back to political events and factional fighting that first emerged in 2013.

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  • Rowand Jacobsen, Ensia

    Can New Water Tech Help Reduce Conflict in Middle East?

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    August 9, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Rowand Jacobsen, appeared on Ensia.

    Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.

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  • How Infrastructure Helps Determine the Risk of Violence Following Drought

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 25, 2016  //  By Adrien Detges
    Somalia IDP

    One fear of climate change is that more variable weather conditions will lead to violence and chaos in some places. But looking at it methodically, do erratic weather conditions actually lead to violent conflict and political instability? Not necessarily.

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  • Ruth Greenspan Bell, The Daily Climate

    Who Wins, Who Loses? Why We Need to Ask the Hard Questions on a Carbon Tax

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    July 21, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Ruth Greenspan Bell, appeared on The Daily Climate.

    As bad news continues to roll in regarding the accelerating impacts of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere, there is increasing discussion about imposing a carbon tax. Economists across the political spectrum support it, from Irwin Seltzer’s camp that remains “uncertain as to whether there is a global warming phenomenon” to William Nordhaus, who unequivocally views climate change as a threat.

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  • Human Rights and the Environment: How Do We Do Better?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 13, 2016  //  By Adrienne Bober
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    2015 was a deadly year for environmental activism. According to Global Witness, 185 activists were killed, a 60 percent increase from 2014. Of the victims, 40 percent were indigenous people, like Berta Cáceres, who spoke at the Wilson Center last year and was shot and killed in her home in Honduras this March. [Video Below]

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