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Translating Urgency Into Action on Water, Climate, and Security “We need to devote our full attention to the relationship between water, climate, and security, increase understanding of the issue, and take urgent action,” said Carola van Rijnsoever, Director of Inclusive Green Growth at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a recent Hague roundtable on building a transatlantic coalition for climate action on water and security challenges in countries of risk. “It’s time to move past the talking and develop practices, and put the practices into play,” said Sharon Burke, Sen...

European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS)  at the University of Bonn. The French government has just called on the EU and its other member states to consider a coordinated withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) due to the political stalemate after three rounds of negotiations for the modernisation of the ECT. More than 400 energy and climate experts had already called before in an open letter for such a withdrawal from the ECT, a little-known mechanism vitally important for underpinning investment in energy projects. Signed in 1994, the ECT was originally d...

President Biden speaks at an event in Jackson, Mississippi standing in front of an American flag (Office of the White House/Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0: https://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/) With Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th President of the United States of America, the world looks to Washington, DC with great expectations. The return to the Paris Agreement and the appointment of John Kerry as the new US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, with promises to work closely with allies on all energy and climate matters, indicate a new paradigm: international energy a...

Senior Lecturer in Border and Resource Security, Massey University Before COVID-19 hit New Zealand’s shores last year, most people’s understanding of defending a border would have come from watching TV reality show Border Patrol. It is easy to understand — on the maps, our country is surrounded by an ocean moat, a natural border. This makes controlling risks arriving from overseas relatively easy as there are limited points at which they can enter New Zealand. Since February 2, 2020, when a travel ban on non-citizens who had travelled through China was introduced, borders have been very...

ANALYSIS: There are three important things to realise about borders.