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Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East & North Africa
09 November, 2016

Climate Diplomacy in Africa

Estherine Lisinge-Fotabong, Mamadou Diakhité, Kwame Ababio and Rudo Makunike
Policy Brief

Climate change is a decisive global challenge which, if not urgently managed, will put at risk not only the environment but also world economic prosperity, development and, more broadly, stability and security. Africa’s vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated by a number of non-climatic factors, including hunger, high prevalence of disease, widespread poverty, chronic conflicts, high dependence on rain-fed agriculture, low levels of development and low adaptive capacity.

Adaptation & Resilience
Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Energy
Water
Asia
20 October, 2016

Cross-border cooperation needed to reduce Himalayan glacier loss

Liu Qin

Chinese scientists call for countries to work together to reduce emissions of black carbon which is causing glaciers to retreat on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, reports Liu Qin.

Adaptation & Resilience
Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Development
Global Issues
19 October, 2016

Inequalities exacerbate climate impacts on poor and vulnerable people – new UN report

United Nations

Evidence is increasing that climate change is taking the largest toll on poor and vulnerable people, and these impacts are largely caused by inequalities that increase the risks from climate hazards, according to a new report launched by the United Nations today.

Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Global Issues
19 October, 2016

Another success of climate diplomacy: greenhouse gas reduction agreement under the Montreal Protocol

Slovak EU Council Presidency

The adoption of the Appendix to the Montreal Protocol on reducing fluorinated greenhouse gases (HFC) successfully concluded the 28th meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (10–14 October 2016, Kigali, Rwanda). The Slovak delegation led by the Slovak Minister for the Environment, László Sólymos, conducted the negotiations on behalf of the EU.

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Another success of climate diplomacy
Adaptation & Resilience
Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Development
Global Issues
19 October, 2016

World Economic and Social Survey 2016: Climate Change Resilience - An Opportunity for Reducing Inequalities

Books and Studies

The World Economic and Social Survey 2016 by the United Nations Department on Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) adds to the debate over challenges to successfully implementing the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.

Climate Change
Security
North America
18 October, 2016

Briefing Book for a New Administration: Recommended Policies and Practices for Addressing the Security Risks of a Changing Climate

The Climate and Security Advisory Group
Policy Brief

With this Briefing Book the Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG), a voluntary, non-partisan group of U.S.-based military, national security, homeland security, intelligence and foreign policy experts from a broad range of institutions, composed a list of recommendations which a new U.S. administration should consider in terms of climate change and security.

11 October, 2016

Post-Paris Challenges for International Climate Policy

Dr Vigya Sharma

The Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Prof Dr Ottmar Edenhofer was in Australia some months ago to give a talk at the Energy Exchange Breakfast Series hosted by the University of Queensland’s Energy Initiative (Brisbane, Australia) and the Energy Policy Institute of Australia.

Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Europe
04 October, 2016

The EU Global Strategy: Mainstreaming Climate Considerations Into Foreign and Security Policy

Stephan Wolters, adelphi

This summer, the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini revealed the long-awaited Global Strategy “Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe”. As part of the Strategy, the EU broadens its climate diplomacy approach and integrates it into its overall foreign and security policy thinking. Its predecessor, the European Security Strategy, released in 2003, contained no mention of the climate, whereas now it is cited 26 times. Indeed, this is an important step to help ensure that external climate action is more effective and coherent. Policymakers and diplomats of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and foreign services of the Member States are now tasked with putting this shared vision into practice.

26 September, 2016

Report: Deadly Miscues on the Brahmaputra an Argument for More Transboundary Cooperation

Victoria Johnson, New Security Beat
Tibet-Temple

Over the course of 1,800 miles, 5,300 vertical feet, and at least five name changes, the Brahmaputra River, in sometimes turbulent outbursts, flows from the Tibetan plateau to the Bay of Bengal. Along the way, it crosses three countries, including major geopolitical rivals China and India, and supplies 90 percent of downstream Bangladesh’s freshwater during the dry season.

Climate Diplomacy
Europe
26 September, 2016

Bucharest – on the European Map of Climate Diplomacy

Elena Gaspar, Environ

The event “Reduce your carbon footprint 2016” took place on 17 September 2016 in the Romanian Capital as part of the activities organised to celebrate the EU Climate Diplomacy Week (9-18 September 2016).

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