In rural northwest Iraq🇮🇶, employment opportunities outside of farming are rare.

Without enough water to maintain livelihoods, ISIS offered an economic escape, writes Sinéad Barry
📰adelph.it/ISISWater📰

Full research to be published in a Special Edition of The Defence Horizon Journal

Our roadmap recommends steps for policymakers to combat #Yemen 's climate crisis 🇾🇪

To adapt to the changing climate and reduce conflict, #climatefinance is urgently needed🌍

We strongly condemn last night’s Iranian attack on locations in Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan Region, which caused civilian casualties. Attacks, by any side, violating Iraqi sovereignty & territorial integrity must stop. Security concerns must be addressed through dialogue, not strikes

Conflict-affected populations are much more vulnerable to environmental disasters. 🇱🇾

Early warning systems must be linked to action that works in conflict contexts.⚠️

Recovery must be climate- and conflict-sensitive.⛑️

Excited to have produced this study with my colleagues.

'Climate change is impacting rainfall, while desertification expands in northeast #Syria '. Farmers are abandoning their land and joining local security forces as a result. Another disturbing alarm signal on #climatesecurity challenges by Delil souleiman
sg.news.yahoo.com/syrian-farmers…

Tomorrow the #SecurityCouncil holds consultations on Yemen🇾🇪.

The latest #ClimateDiploPod is out just in time—our guest هند الإرياني Hind Al-Eryani highlights how the war impacts the lives of women, children, minorities and how #climatechange plays into these risks.
🎧adelph.it/podcast36

Debating the new #UNSC resolution on #Libya , some Council members argued that 'climate change as a thematic issue is not relevant to #UNSMIL ’s mandate', @scrtweets reports 👇
If you are interested in weighing the evidence, New Security Beat has you covered: go.shr.lc/48L4OB0

As the #UNSC discusses #Libya later today, 👇 a New Security Beat synthesis on post-flood #ClimateSecurity challenges & a Conflict- And Climate-Sensitive Recovery Pathway For Libya by @sinadbarry1, Alexandra Steinkraus & yours truly
go.shr.lc/48L4OB0

🇱🇾 'From Floods To Disaster: A Conflict- And Climate-Sensitive Recovery Pathway For Libya'

adelphi 🌐's Sinéad Barry, Alexandra Steinkraus, and Benjamin Pohl discuss recovery possibilities in the wake of Libya's floods

Read it on #NewSecurityBeat
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A month on from the Derna dam burst that killed 11,000+, our article outlines the relationship between Libya's conflict and the disaster, calling for a response that considers both.

Alexandra Steinkraus Benjamin Pohl

newsecuritybeat.org/2023/10/floods… New Security Beat The Wilson Center

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The sixth #IPCC report outlines the impacts climate change is having on security.

Alexandra Steinkraus and I summarised the links, looking at the problems with existing adaptation efforts, and climate change's potential to exacerbate conflict.

#AR6

As leaders gather at the Munich Security Conference to discuss challenges to #globalsecurity , #climateaction 🌍 should not be traded for military campaigns in Lake Chad basin and Sahel, argue Sinéad Barry & Janani Vivekananda

👉adelph.it/ConsiderClimate
🟣originally published in New Security Beat

Ahead of #MSC2023 , I'm delighted to be featured in The Wilson Center's New Security Beat on why climate change needs to be part of peace considerations.

newsecuritybeat.org/2023/02/arms-e…

Last year I had the honour of visiting Nature Iraq's space in Suli and learnt about their activism.

Horrified to hear that Jassim Al Asadi has been kidnapped for his brave work. #ProtectEnvironmentalDefenders

Word of the morning is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to soak up the warmth of the sun, even in winter.

In our first article of the year, Sinéad Barry discusses the need for a #WorldEnvironmentOrganisation to address #climatechange and to combat one of the greatest deficiencies underpinning our global environmental failure: coordination.

👉Check it out: tinyurl.com/3tspkuxw

Seán Binder's farcical trial begins today. Make your voice heard and demand the Greek authorities drop the charges amnesty.ie/demand-the-cha…