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  • Tackling Challenges in the MENA Region: Climate, Food Security, and Migration

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    On the Beat  //  May 26, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    At a recent Brookings Institution event titled Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and Migration in the Middle East, Ferid Belhaj, Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the World Bank, observed that the MENA region relies heavily on grain exported from both Ukraine and Russia. When the 2022 invasion reduced grain exports to a trickle, the entire region suffered heavily.

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  • Building Peace by Formalizing Gold Mining in the Central Sahel

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 23, 2023  //  By Jorden de Haan & Aly Diarra
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    The Central Sahel is increasingly deemed the new epicenter of terrorism, accounting for 35 percent of global terrorism deaths in 2021. Yet as the situation in the region continues to deteriorate, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) both persists and proliferates. For instance, in Mali, where much of the region’s security crisis originates, this conundrum is laid bare.

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  • Addressing the Converging Risks of Climate, Insecurity, and Migration in Central America

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    May 19, 2023  //  By Claire Doyle
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    The idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” has been gaining steam since it was first proposed roughly 15 years ago. This framing acknowledges that climate can interact with existing political, social, and demographic conditions to heighten communities’ security risks—which in turn suggests that problem-solving in the face of these risks must be interdisciplinary.

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  • China’s Silent Greening

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  May 18, 2023  //  By Rodrigo Bellezoni, Peng Ren & Zhao Zhong
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    This article was produced as part of a China Environment Forum and Ohio State University Cultivating U.S. and Chinese Climate Leadership on Food and Agriculture initiative. A version of this article also appeared on China Daily.

    China is Brazil’s main trading partner and accounts for over a quarter of all Brazilian exports. Yet two of the largest products in this trading relationship—beef and soybeans—are also crops that drive deforestation in the Amazon. Brazil’s deforestation rates declined substantially between 2004 and 2012, but forest clearage needed to raise cattle reversed the trend: The Amazon lost 10,476 square kilometers of rainforest in 2021, the highest total in the decade.  

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  • China’s Climate Security Vulnerabilities

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 25, 2023  //  By Angus Soderberg
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    Climate change’s ripples reach every corner of the globe, but nowhere is their geopolitical impact more pronounced than in China’s relations with the United States. This is especially the case as the undisputed security risks posed to both nations by climate change become intertwined with broader arcs of political, economic, and military competition on both sides.

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  • Addressing Climate Security Risks in Central America (Report Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 24, 2023  //  By Wilson Center Staff

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    Northern Central America is experiencing a confluence of insecurity and migration challenges that are increasingly intertwined with climate change. What are the contours of this emergent convergence—and how can responses be developed and implemented more effectively?

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  • How is Climate Change Affecting MENA? Local Experts Weigh In

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 21, 2023  //  By Khalil Abu Allan, Eslam A. Hassanein, Gokce Sencan & Neeshad Shafi
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    This article was originally published as part of the Viewpoints Series of the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program.

    For Earth Day 2023, members of the Agents of Change Youth Fellowship answered this question: What is the biggest environmental or climate change related challenge facing your community today? Their responses reveal a pattern of vulnerability facing the MENA region.

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  • Climate and Coastal Adaptation: The Need for Urgent Planning

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 11, 2023  //  By Anders Beal
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    The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights the small window of opportunity available to achieve climate resilient development, despite the growing risks of reaching tipping points. Environmental advocates argue that the UN’s warnings should remain front-and-center, including those that highlight worsening climate trends already experienced by developing nations.

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