Environment & Sustainability

The Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (MKRCA), collaboratively managed by local Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, exemplifies conservation success. However, the area is under threat by a proposed highway development…

In this interview, we speak with R. Clarke Cooper, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and current nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Mr. Cooper explores…

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged as the government cut the budgets of environmental protection bodies and submitted them to military control. In 2023, newly elected…

As climate change escalates, millions of people are projected to be displaced in the coming decades. However, the people displaced in the context of climate change and natural disasters, colloquially…

Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, faces significant challenges in its power sector, including frequent power cuts, poor power quality, and limited electricity access in rural areas. To address these issues,…

The relationship between climate change and violent conflict is complicated. Existing studies suggest that climate change increases armed conflict through indirect pathways, including detriment to livelihoods, displacement, migration, and…

“Ecopoliticide” provides a conceptual framework for exploring how acts of campaigning, protesting, and resisting against ecocide lead to various forms of retribution. To illuminate this trend, the article provides two…

Across cultures and countries, food is a shared human experience, and different cuisines are a symbol of diversity. Yet, in our current climate crisis that requires sustainable solutions, we must…

Addressing plastic pollution represents an extremely complex and multi-faceted governance problem, demanding a range of novel regulatory approaches. The broad utility, environmental persistence, wide-ranging harmful impacts, and global supply chain…

In 2019, Chile became the first sovereign issuer of green bonds in the Americas and the third largest issuer among emerging markets the following year. Building on the country’s climate…