Tag: Environment & Sustainability

101 Articles

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

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