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“One of the challenges of responding to climate risks is that climate’s impacts and how those impacts interact with existing systems on the
A similar version of this article appears on The Center for Climate and Security.“Climate change is an increasingly destabilizing force—an
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The Top 5 Posts of January 2021 The nature of climate risks complicates efforts to pinpoint and articulate climate’s impact on conflict. In January’s top post, Peter Schwartzstein draws on years of environmental reporting across the MENA region to share examples of how environmental and climate changes are driving conflict in areas where the climate angle isn’t immediately obvious. Speaking of climate and conflict, the recently released Global Fragility Strategy fails to include climate change as a driver of fragility, notes ECSP Director Lauren Risi in the fifth top post. It does, h...
“Multilateralism is Back!” Climate Change, Equity, and 21st Century Diplomacy “Climate change will upend the 21 st century world order. From financial systems, migration patterns, and great power competition, to the potential unintended consequences of climate responses, and issues of inequity and the future of democracy, climate change will penetrate our systems, our relationships, and our lives in ways that we have yet to fully understand,” said Lauren Risi, Director of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, at a recent event co-hosted by the Wilson Center ...