Blatten, Langtang, and Disasters Yet to Come?
…be precise in our analysis and communication around climate attribution, but consensus does exist on some general trends: climate change is driving new hazard interactions that can generate extreme flows….
David Michel discusses South Asia climate change impacts at Woodrow Wilson Center panel discussion
On Thursday, February 7th, David Michel participated in a Wilson Center panel discussion titled “Strengthening Responses to Climate Variability in South Asia,” jointly hosted by the center’s Asia Program and…
Stimson report on climate change featured in Independent European Daily Express
A joint report by the Center for American Progress, the Stimson Center, and the Center for Climate and Security was featured in the Independent European Daily Express. Click here to…
What’s Behind the Global Gen Z Revolution?
…debt amidst shrinking aid and investment; and climate change. The World Bank lists 39 “fragile and conflict-affected states.” Less-developed countries have become the “losers” in a fragmenting world of growing…
Lower Mekong Power Developments: Drought, Renewable Disruptions, & Electricity Trade
…America, November 5, 2019, at https://www.pnas.org/content/116/45/22512; Asian Development Bank (ADB), The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review, 2009, page 255; Jasparro, C. and J. Taylor, Climate…
Owen McAleer’s briefing on climate change in the Niger River Basin published in WPR
…resources. In the western Sahel region, climate and demographic changes have driven increased competition for resources between the region’s two oldest economic groups. Farmers and pastoralists-otherwise known as herders-have long…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, March 2024
…a holistic approach for minimizing the likelihood that CFSI could initiate a nuclear security event.’” Threats Climate Change Could Unearth, Disturb Cold War-Era Nuclear Waste Buried by the US, Officials…
Ending Violence Against Women & Girls: Bridging the Gap Between Multilateral Aspiration & State Practice
…treaty to end violence against women succeed? New Humanitarian (blog), 6 January 2022, https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/2022/1/6/how-can-global-treaty-violence-against-women-succeed; and Helen Rubenstein. ‘Time for a Change’, Global Rights for Women, 18 March 2019, https://globalrightsforwomen.org/how-we-work/time-for-a-change-the-need-for-a-binding-international-treaty-on-violence-against-women/. or whether the…