Tag: Environment & Sustainability
100 Articles
- Global Governance
Decisive, Future-Oriented Action Will be Needed to Achieve the Goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Despite a wealth of biodiversity laws operating at every scale of governance, the world’s rich diversity of plants, animals, and ecosystems is disappearing. The effects of land…
January 11, 2023
- Conflict & Security
The Illegal Wildlife Trade-Green Militarization Nexus Provokes Unsustainable Environmental Conflict
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has been met with a heavy-handed and increasingly militarized response, or what scholarship has labeled green militarization. This intervention…
January 9, 2023
- Global Governance
Climate-Related Loss and Damage Issues in Global Negotiations
The question of financial payments for loss and damage resulting from climate change has emerged as one of the key policy issues at the twenty-seventh Conference of Parties…
January 4, 2023
- Global Governance
Can the Arctic Council Survive the Impact of the Ukraine Crisis?
The Ukraine crisis has disrupted the work of the Arctic Council, an international forum created in the 1990s to promote international cooperation on issues of sustainable…
December 30, 2022
- Global Governance
As Russia-Ukraine War Rages, America Refocuses on the Arctic
The United States recently announced a series of Arctic policies, from the creation of a new Arctic ambassadorial position to the release of an updated Arctic strategy. Amid the…
November 18, 2022
- Society & Culture
Closing the Gaps: Space Policy Considerations Beyond Security and Economy
Most of today’s public discussions of space policy focus on either national security concerns or the economic regulation of the growing space industry. This article argues for…
November 14, 2022
- Science & Technology
Russian Gas, Green Technology, and the Great Sacrifice
Introduction While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left NATO and European Union (EU) member states (mostly) unified around a common goal to wean themselves off Russian oil…
June 23, 2022
- Science & Technology
Towards a National Strategy to Cut Gasoline Use
The Need for a Coordinated Strategy to Reduce Gasoline Consumption Gasoline use in the United States pumps hundreds of billions of dollars into the treasuries of despotic, …
May 27, 2022
- Global Governance
Climate Leadership in the ‘Disappearing Islands’
In the Pacific Islands, also known as Oceania, national governments, activists, churches, and civil society have been working for many years, across multiple arenas, to address…
May 6, 2022
- Conflict & Security
Food, Climate Change, and War in the 21st Century
The indirect effects of climate change on conflict in the developing world are gaining attention among scholars and policymakers. Evidence suggests that food shortages caused by…
March 7, 2022