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Climate & Security Weekend Watch List
Happy Friday! There were a number of climate and security-related events over the past couple of weeks, some of which were recorded. Listed below are some that caught our eye, and might make for great weekend climate and security binge listening/watching! (more…)
UAE Takes Lead Role in the Gulf on Climate Action
This is a crosspost by Andrew Holland of the American Security Project.
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi writes an important op-ed in Gulf News about the importance of finding solutions to climate change, titled “The Climate Change Challenge.” He says that Abu Dhabi will “bring the world together to drive more solutions” to this issue at a meeting in May called Abu Dhabi Ascent to drive momentum towards finding solutions to climate change. (more…)
Special Issue on Climate and Security: Evidence, Emerging Risks, and a New Agenda
The Journal Climate Change has just released a new special issue titled “Climate and Security: Evidence, Emerging Risks, and a New Agenda.” This issue provides a timely assessment of the current state of peer-reviewed climate and security research. It is critically important to continue research in the space and disentangle the links between climate change, peace and conflict. This body of research suggests that there is ample evidence that climate change can act as a “threat multiplier” – exacerbating other socio-political, economic and environmental conditions, but that there is a need to continue investigating the minutiae of how exactly climate change interacts with these factors, and what it could mean for a future with a greater intensity and frequency of climatic events. (more…)