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  • Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead

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    Eye On  //  March 14, 2025  //  By Angus Soderberg

    As 2025 marches into its third month, the governance challenges that accompany rising demand for natural resources are not only on the front burner—they are proliferating—and  becoming entangled with the drivers of conflict and cooperation.

    The heated competition for resources has bubbled up in a proposed billion-dollar deal for Ukrainian minerals now making global headlines. The view that critical minerals like lithium, manganese, and others could become bargaining chips in potential peace talks demonstrates how central they’ve become to global competition—and to the economic and political future of countries around the world.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | February 24 – 28

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    Eye On  //  February 28, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    EU Parliament Suspends Rwandan Critical Mineral Pact Over Links to DRC Conflict (Mongabay)

    Rwanda and the DRC both have large reserves of critical minerals essential to the clean energy transition. Yet the EU has voted to suspend a cooperation agreement on mineral extraction in the region after the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 seized key areas in the DRC’s eastern provinces.

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  • Q&A: Julian Higuera-Florez on Harnessing Environmental Peacebuilding in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    Q&A  //  February 25, 2025  //  By Angus Soderberg

    Environmental peacebuilding offers a promising framework to address deeply intertwined environmental challenges and conflict dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean. So why has it not delivered fully on this promise? In an interview with ESCP, Julian Higuera-Florez, a research specialist in climate, peace, and security at the Alliance of Biodiversity and CIAT and CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security, discussed a new policy brief, Environmental Peacebuilding in Latin America and the Caribbean: Bridging Gaps and Harnessing Opportunities, co-authored with the UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean Hub.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | February 17 – 21

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    Eye On  //  February 21, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Africa Energy Bank Aims to Boost Energy Supply (Al Jazeera)

    Nearly 43% of the African continent lacks consistent access to electricity, which is the lowest level of modern energy usage in the world. A newly established Africa Energy Bank aims to boost the energy supply on the continent through investments in energy infrastructure projects.

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  • Climate Change, Peace and Security: Discourse Versus Action in Asia

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 18, 2025  //  By Simone Bunse & Tabea Campbell Pauli

    This year’s World Economic Forum called for greater urgency in discussing the impacts of climate change on human security and social, political, and economic stability. And a recognition of the destabilizing effects of climate change also has led the UN to emphasize the risks they pose to the most vulnerable populations, including poor, conflict-affected, and displaced persons.

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  • ECSP Weekly Watch | February 10 – 14

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    Eye On  //  February 14, 2025  //  By Breanna Crossman

    A window into what we’re reading at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

    Declining Biodiversity May Increase Risk of Future Pandemics (Mongabay)

    The COVID-19 pandemic that spread around the world in 2020 brought normal life to a standstill at many times in the past few years. But far from being a singular event, scientists and health experts warn that pandemics may become more common as biodiversity declines and spillover events become more likely.

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  • Energy Islanding in Kentucky? Fort Knox’s Push to Resilience and Grid Independence

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 3, 2025  //  By Alicia Dotson & Andrew Pfluger

    Islands are not found in abundance in the middle of the continental United States, but Fort Knox has set out to challenge this notion. Indeed, it has been described as the first and only energy-independent installation in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)—and thus exists on an “energy island.”

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  • Could Japan and the US Support Latin America’s Critical Minerals Sector?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 28, 2025  //  By Neeraja Kulkarni

    Cobalt, lithium, and copper are the critical minerals necessary to produce rechargeable lithium-ion-based batteries, and they are central to the electric vehicle (EV) supply chains in the energy transition. The importance of these minerals—and China’s strategic control of them—now compels the United States and its allies to diversify their supply chains for this essential resource.

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