Permafrost thaw presents a major challenge to Arctic communities and ecosystems and has enormous potential to accelerate climate change and its global impacts.
Tag: climate change
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The tendency to focus on climate displacement has obscured an equally important question: why people don’t move.
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How we choose to adapt to and mitigate climate change can either cause harm, including potentially triggering conflict, or it can contribute to sustaining peace.
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The political leadership of the world’s most powerful, polluting states should seize the opportunity to act on their promises today, not only accelerating their action on climate, but seeing the value of the proposals in the secretary-general’s Our Common Agenda initiative.
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Scientists have a clear picture of how badly off-track the world is with tackling the climate crisis. But the complexities concerning sources and carbon sinks make it easy for governments and corporations to obfuscate their real contributions to climate change.
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The time is ripe for innovative thinking and pragmatic solutions at the nexus of the international climate change and WPS agendas.
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Climate- and conflict-affected countries are trapped in a negative spiral where climate change undermines the ability to cope with conflict, and conflict undermines the resilience to cope with climate change.
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Efforts to translate climate and environmental-related mandates into policies and practices are a work in progress, and can benefit from ongoing learning, monitoring, and adaptation.
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An understanding of the gendered insecurities entrenched by natural disasters points to the need to expand the scope of the WPS agenda in order to address the structural violence of the climate crisis.
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We live in an age where challenges to peace and security come not only from agents intentionally trying to do us harm, but also from climate change and pandemics.
