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Reshaping Multilateralism Episode 4: Recent Climate Security Successes and Opportunities for 2025
This week, the Nexus25 project released Episode 4 of the Reshaping Multilateralism podcast featuring Erin Sikorsky, Director of the Center for Climate and Security; Iris Ferguson, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Arctic and Global Resilience; and Laura Pavlovic, Senior Deputy Assistant to the Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization. This week’s guests discuss key climate security successes in the United States over the past four years, leveraging programmatic co-benefits, and opportunities for the next Administration in 2025.
“Reshaping Multilateralism” is a production of the Nexus25 project, a joint Istituto Affari Internazionali / Center for Climate and Security initiative funded by Stiftung Mercator in Germany and produced in partnership with storielibere.fm. Subscribe via your favorite podcast platform, visit www.nexus25.org, and stay tuned for insider analysis from global experts on global security, climate security, climate finance, the future of multilateralism, and more.
Reshaping Multilateralism Episode 2: The View from the Front Lines – Nexus Challenges in South Asia
This week, the Nexus25 project released its second episode of Reshaping Multilateralism, a podcast at the climate-insecurity-migration nexus. Episode 2, “The View from the Frontlines: Nexus Challenges in South Asia,” takes listeners to the world’s most populous – and climate-vulnerable – region. From erratic monsoon seasons in India to tropical cyclones in the Philippines, policymakers and local populations alike are on the frontlines of climate change, grappling with extreme impacts of climate change on their livelihoods, agriculture, and security.
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We’re Hiring: Research Fellow for the Center for Climate and Security
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) seeks to hire a full-time Research Fellow for its Center for Climate and Security (CCS), an institute of CSR. This is an entry-level position focused on addressing climate security risks and solutions. The person in this role will work closely with the CCS Director and Deputy Director and other members of the CCS team.
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A Livable Climate Needs Help From Youth; the U.S. Can Foster It
By Elsa Barron and Katherine Waters
This piece was originally published at the United States Institute of Peace.
Humanity is at a tipping point. New data confirms 2023 as Earth’s hottest-ever recorded year. Increasing temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather are heightening tension over resources, damaging people’s health and livelihoods, and displacing millions. Young people have one of the largest stakes in climate decisions made today, for they face the lasting environmental consequences of climate change — and the consequent threats to peace and security. Yet youth remain mostly excluded from decision-making on climate. U.S. leadership, via three steps in particular, can bolster genuine youth leadership on climate that prioritizes the welfare of future generations.
Government officials and other decisionmakers will meet next month to set the agenda for the next United Nations climate conference, COP29, in November. As with each global conference in this series, stretching back nearly 30 years, we must once again confront the ways in which international climate negotiations exclude young people from decision-making about their futures.
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