Tag: Environment & Sustainability
103 Articles
- Society & Culture
Inuit Climate Policy Futures: From Seeing to Sensing
Climate Science and Indigenous knowledge: a Model for “Two-Eyed Seeing” As climate change accelerates, so does the need for diverse ways of understanding its impacts. Western…
July 3, 2025
- Society & Culture
A Rush to Pave the Peruvian Amazon: Bypassing the Law, a Highway Megadevelopment Project Threatens Indigenous Land Rights and Biocultural Resources
Introduction The Bellavista-Mazán-Salvador-El Estrecho highway (the Bellavista-El Estrecho highway) in the Peruvian Amazon is a planned megadevelopment project that illustrates…
March 25, 2025
- Dialogues
The Energy Transition—Insights from Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, The Honourable R. Clarke Cooper
GJIA: Now we will move on to the second part of the interview, focusing more on energy and diplomacy. With the global energy transition gaining momentum, how do you see the Gulf…
November 15, 2024
- Conflict & Security
The Amazon as a State Matter: Exploring the Role of Military in Forest Governance
The rise in environmental crimes in the Brazilian Amazon reflects the growing scale of transnational groups conducting illegal resource exploitation. Their schemes are sensitive…
November 12, 2024
- Dialogues
The Missing Refuge for “Climate Refugees” in the International Legal Framework: A Dialogue with Caitlan M. Sussman
GJIA: Your research indicates that “climate refugees” remain excluded and unprotected within legal refugee frameworks like the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees…
September 21, 2024
- Business & Economics
Illuminating Nigeria: Blurring the Lines Between the Grid and Off-Grid Electricity
With less than six years to the target date of the United Nations’ Seventh Sustainable Development Goal, which focuses on achieving universal access to clean energy, over 86…
August 7, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Concurrent Challenges of Conflict and Climate Change in Myanmar
Myanmar’s Climate Exposure and Escalating Conflict Myanmar is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. It faces a high risk of climate hazards such as floods,…
June 9, 2024
- Human Rights & Development
Ecopoliticide: The Strategic Murder of Environmental Activists Is a Fundamental Threat to Human and Environmental Security
Introduction: A Typology of Ecopoliticide The level of violence against environmental defenders has been shockingly high and shows no signs of abating. Environmental defenders…
June 8, 2024
- Dialogues
The Role of Food in Sustaining Human and Planetary Health with Dr. Kathryn Bradbury
GJIA: In your most recent work, “Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of New Zealand Households’ Food Purchases: An Analysis by Demographic Variables,” you found a positive…
April 20, 2024
- Global Governance
The Challenge of Crafting a Global Regime for Plastic Pollution
Introduction While the full extent of the environmental impacts associated with waste plastics and microplastics is becoming ever more clearly understood, plastic use and plastic…
February 28, 2024