Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, July 2024
…a water pumping station and another electrical sub-station, leaving the residents without tap water and electricity during the day. The ZNPP remained connected to its two off-site power lines and…
Looking for leadership to address climate risk
…climate-induced migration, also expose coastal cities to additional stressors. Put all of that together, you get a very complex socioeconomic system. As the impacts of climate change increase, it stresses…
Powering Ahead: The United Nations and Somalia’s Renewable Energy Opportunity
…role toward climate change in Somalia, having introduced the first-ever role of climate security advisor to the UN mission. In addition, the UN system has set ambitious internal renewable-energy and…
BRICS to G20: Advancing Climate, Equality, and Multilateral Reform
…Brazil’s proposed Climate Change Council, positioned under the UN and drawing on non-state expertise, could further improve coordination by streamlining currently fragmented climate initiatives. Additionally, and as a contribution to…
Red Cell: Can the United States be Morally “Pure” and “Green”?
…as one U.S. analyst has warned, “climate competition between the two superpowers could lead to a ‘race to the top’ on deploying green technologies and combating climate change.” US-China cooperation…
Red Cell: Is the West losing the Global South?
…climate change are hitting developing countries particularly hard. A third of Pakistan was submerged under water in August with 1,350 dead and some 33-to-50 million people displaced, three-to-five times the…
TRANSCRIPT – Ground Forces and Great Powers: A Conversation with U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth
…anyone who didn’t know that there was a climate strategy. The US Army, you noted, and I’m going to quote you again, “The effects of climate change have taken a…
A Vietnamese Perspective on Proposed Mainstream Mekong Dams
…change and if so in what ways? Climate change forecasts predict more rain in the flood season and less during the dry seasons – it means that the flow of…