Tag: Environment & Sustainability
100 Articles
- 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…
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…
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
- Business & Economics
The Role of Sovereign Green Bonds in Chile’s Development
What are green bonds? Green bonds, issued for the first time in 2007 by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the World Bank, represent a major financial innovation of the last…
October 16, 2023
- Human Rights & Development
Climate Change and Pacific Islander Life
Pacific Islanders The Pacific Ocean covers nearly a third of the Earth’s surface with diverse islands scattered throughout, from active volcanoes to coral atolls.…
April 28, 2023
- Global Governance
Seeking Recognition for Climate Refugees. Are States the Only Game in Town?
The 2021 World Bank report warns that without early climate action, climate change could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their countries by 2050.…
March 15, 2023