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May 1, 2025
15 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM A DECADE OF CLIMATE SECURITY REPORTING
Introduction
For nearly two decades, the connections between climate change and security have been debated and discussed in a diverse array of fora—from universities, think tanks, and the…
Apr 23, 2025
Destabilization From ‘Within’: A “Termite Theory” of Climate’s Pathway to Violence
When we talk about climate’s contribution to violence, we generally characterize these stresses as external forces, as destabilizers applying pressure to already ‘messy’ socio-political contexts…
Apr 22, 2025
How Climate Change Foils Climate Reporting
Floods are hard to cover when the road is washed out.
Nov 15, 2024
On state securitization, artificial NGOs, and environmental journalism: An interview
Abstract
This is an interview with environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein. In the interview, Schwartzstein discusses how states are increasingly securitizing and weaponizing climate…
Nov 11, 2024
Record global warming risks aggravating war and violence
At COP29, negotiators will be discussing the fate of a planet already riddled with climate-related conflict
Nov 1, 2024
The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise Again of the Middle East’s Most Ambitious Environment Scheme
For an initiative that has the potential to rework the Middle East, Project Prosperity would leave a remarkably small imprint on the ground. In its initial phase, Israel would build a new desalination…
Oct 17, 2024
Climate Change & Crime: A big, bad, largely overlooked nexus
The greater the impact of climate change, the greater our awareness of the security challenges it’s leaving in its wake. In recent years, there has been a relative deluge of research in this space.…
Aug 28, 2024
Environmental NGOs as Tools of State Security Policy: A Growing Trend
For a group of self-described environmentalists, the roughly two dozen Azerbaijanis who suddenly assembled along the highway near the Armenian border in late 2022 looked like a pretty atypical lot.…
Jun 11, 2024
Climate Security and Europe’s Greens: A Match Made in Political Heaven?
When Luxembourg’s Green Party was offered the defense portfolio in coalition talks after performing strongly in the country’s 2019 elections, its senior members faced a dilemma. Never before had…