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publ-ASPThe American Security Project (ASP) envisages an interactive tool, The Global Security and Defense Index on Climate Change, that will allow users to expl

Global Issues
Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia

Ambassador Susan Rice, recently-appointed to be President Obama’s National Security Advisor, gave parting remarks on her last day as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday. In her speech, she expressed the need for the U.S.

Climate Change
Global Issues
Jaspreet Kindra

The floods in India’s Uttarakhand State, which may have claimed as many as 5,000 lives, were prompted by an unusually high amount of rainfall. The disaster, possibly the largest so far this year, underscores what is at stake in the UN’s upcoming climate talks in Warsaw, Poland.

Climate Change
Global Issues
Ed King

A short line of text in this week’s G8 communique linking climate change to global security concerns could influence the way rising emissions are dealt with at an international level.

Climate Change
Global Issues
Joy Hyvarinen

International law needs to develop to keep pace with climate change.

It is creating new legal challenges for countries and communities, including unavoidable climate change-related loss and damage.

Dennis Tänzler, adelphi

The discussion on climate change as a threat to peace and security has gained some momentum after a UN Security Council meeting in July 2011.

Climate Change
Land & Food
Global Issues
Middle East & North Africa
Kyle Benjamin Schneps

In February 2011, an international summit in Bonn, Germany officially approved the building of a pan-African Great Green Wall (GGW) in support of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

As one of the world's fastest-growing environmental initiatives, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) renewed its call today for rapid action to reduce some of the greatest hazards to human health.

Climate Change
Global Issues
Jim Lobe

Defence establishments around the world increasingly see climate change as posing potentially serious threats to national and international security, according to a review of high-level statements by the world’s governments released here Thursday.  

Global Issues
adelphi

In this interview, Alexander Carius, Managing Director at adelphi, speaks about needs and priorities for climate security and its relevance for climate diplomacy from a think tank perspective.

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