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The USAID Water and Development Strategy: A Good First Step
“Population growth, increased demand for and rising cost of energy, increased urbanization, watershed and environmental degradation, natural disasters, conflict, climate change, and weak water governance are putting water resources under increasing pressure” – USAID Water and Development Strategy 2013-2018
The US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) released its first global Water and Development Strategy on May 21. The purpose of the Strategy is to provide an increased focus on how the agency will approach its water programs from 2013-2018. (more…)
Conflict Prevention and Resolution Must Incorporate Climate-Adaptation Policies
This is a post by guest contributor, Charlotte Baskin-Gerwitz
The international community widely acknowledges that climate change is a pressing issue. President Barack Obama’s 2010 National Security Strategy recognized that climate change is a national security threat, impacting both the homeland and American interests abroad. The Strategy warns: “the danger from climate change is real, urgent and severe. The change wrought by a warming planet will lead to new conflicts over refugees and resources; new suffering from drought and famine; catastrophic natural disasters; and the degradation of land across the globe.” The broader national security policy community has also come to recognize climate change as a “threat multiplier,” increasing the risk of conflict when combined with other factors; however, not enough attention is yet being paid to its importance in conflict prevention and resolution. (more…)
Prepared Remarks on Global Food and Climate Security
The following speech was delivered on Dec. 12, 2012 in Washington, DC by Caitlin Werrell, at a global food security and climate change lunch conversation for bishops from the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
I was invited to discuss the human security risks that climate change presents, specifically (but not exclusively) related to food security. I will briefly look at what we mean by climate as a security risk, discuss a couple of case studies and then close on what this might mean going forward for food security and your programs. (more…)
Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt: Entering Uncharted Waters of Risk
(Neven Acropolis with Kevin McKinney and Joe Romm provide an excellent post on this topic in Climate Progress. This post is a brief summary of the associated risks highlighted in their post).
Since the earliest humans were walking the earth, the Arctic sea-ice existed in a fairly stable pattern of freezing and melting. Over the last several decades, those melting and freezing patterns have rapidly shifted. This week, the extent of sea-ice melt reached an all time record minimum, and there is still a month of continued melting ahead. Several studies suggest that the Arctic could be seasonally sea-ice free by 2040, for the first time in human history. (more…)