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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | November 27 – December 1

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    Eye On  //  December 1, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Why is COP Important?

    Governments, policymakers, advocates, and observers have entered another annual UN climate conference cycle. Known as a “COP” (or “conference of parties”), these annual government-level gatherings focus on climate action, including assessments of progress toward the Paris Agreement and the creation of even more ambitious plans.

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  • Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Human Rights, and Oil: The Elephants in the COP28 Room

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 30, 2023  //  By Marwa Daoudy
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    The annual multilateral Conference of the Parties (COP) has become one of the most important meetings on the global agenda. So the fact that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host COP28 starting this week in Dubai—on the coattails of another Arab country, Egypt, hosting COP27 in 2022—is a big deal. Bringing such important international meetings to the Global South is a step forward in decentering and reorienting global climate action.

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  • The Arc | Dr. Robert McLeman on Climate Migration, Equity, and Policy

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 27, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff

    women walking through flooded street in BangladeshIn today’s episode of “The Arc,” ECSP Director Lauren Risi interviews Dr. Robert McLeman, a professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Toronto. Dr. McLeman unpacks how climate change interacts with social, economic, and political conditions in ways that lead some communities more vulnerable to climate-related displacement than others. He also shares insights into how we can better promote safe, dignified, and just migration in the context of climate change and how justice and equity considerations are being incorporated into climate migration policy.

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  • Relief, Recovery, and Peace: Peter Schwartzstein on COP28’s New Theme

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 21, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff

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    In today’s “Relief, Recovery, and Peace” episode on New Security Broadcast, we’re featuring an interview recorded by the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program (MEP) with Peter Schwartzstein, a Wilson Center Global Fellow and environmental journalist.  

    In a conversation with MEP director, Merissa Khurma, Schwartzstein discusses the impact of the war in Gaza on COP28 and environmental peacebuilding efforts more broadly in the region. He also talks about how to advance the new theme of peace in COP discussions and what his hopes are for a best-case scenario coming out of the upcoming summit.


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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | November 13 – 17

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    Eye On  //  November 17, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    A Fifth National Climate Assessment

    The US Global Change Research Program launched the fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA)  on Monday, November 13. Published once every five years, the NCA is the United States’ leading report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses.

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  • Relief, Recovery, and Peace: David Nicholson on COP28’s New Theme

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 15, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff

    David Nicholson HeadshotIn a new mini-series previewing the upcoming UN Climate Summit (COP28)’s new focus on relief, recovery, & peace, ECSP Program Director Lauren Risi spoke with David Nicholson, Director of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Technical Support Unit at Mercy Corps.

    Nicholson described his role in ensuring that climate change is at the center of Mercy Corps’ wide-ranging and successful global humanitarian aid programs in 42 countries—and the importance of having local staff to make interventions a true partnership. He also talks about climate finance, and his hopes that COP28’s theme of “relief, recovery and peace” will advance the view that peacemaking is essential to adaptation efforts. 

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | October 16 – 20

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 20, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    Water Security Concerns in Gaza

    Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on October 7th led the Israeli government to cut off water supplies to the Gaza Strip with immediate effect. This has resulted in a clean water crisis that the UN warns is now a matter of life and death.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | October 9 – 13

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    Eye On  //  October 13, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    A window into what we are reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Organizing Regional Action on Climate Change, Health, and Environment

    As the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals looms, the World Health Organization has proposed a new regional framework that aims to build climate-resilient and sustainable health systems, improve the health sector’s access to climate funding, and build an evidence base for policymaking.

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