COP30: A Discordant World Stress Tests Collective Climate Action
…can survive escalating geopolitical fractures and waning multilateral coherence. The central challenge is a glaring ambition gap. Current national climate plans, if implemented, would reduce global emissions by a mere…
Stimson’s “Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance” co-report cited in The Boston Globe
Our world is more connected than ever before. The global community is facing crucial turning points on issues that cannot be solved by a single nation, including climate change, the…
A Pact for the People? Inclusive Multilateralism in a World of Change
…its inability to prevent or resolve conflicts; and its failure to tackle global challenges like climate change, poverty, and inequality. The question is no longer if multilateralism needs reform but…
China’s Conflict Resolution and Mediation Approach in Mali
…in East Africa. It is this chapter’s contention that the climate in the Sahel (especially with the crisis in Mali) is more similar to the Middle East (low urgency in…
Evolution of Arctic Territorial Claims and Agreements: A Timeline (1903-Present)
…protection of Arctic biodiversity, noting the threats and changes currently taking place from climate change and other anthropogenic causes in the region. The report attempts to analyze Arctic multilateral environmental…
Disruption and the Nuclear Industry
…model, followed by Egypt. In 2023, 42 reactors outside of Russia were operating with Russian or Soviet-designed VVER (water-water energetic reactors, or vodo-vodyanoi enyergeticheskiy reaktory) across 11 countries. Of these,…
Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research and Policy Coordination
…they confront in the Indus Basin. Drawn from the combined input of 25 leading Indian and Pakistani water experts, climate change specialists, economists, and former ambassadors, the report provides a…
Brian Eyler cited in VF Press on the Mekong River Basin water resources
…Vietnam is increasing rapidly. So, time to Laos and Vietnam need innovative approaches, appropriate to change the location of the dam on the map, hold water and still water for downstream…