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The Science of Destruction

September 24, 2020 Oli Brown Leave a comment

In 1965, 29-year-old Dang Hong Nhut was visiting her husband in the Chu Chi region of Vietnam when the planes…

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Lake Chad shrinking? It’s a story that masks serious failures of governance

October 28, 2019 Oli Brown Leave a comment

Lake Chad is a hydrological miracle – a life-giving, freshwater lake in the Sahara desert. But the region around the…

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Climate Security in Afghanistan: Should it even be on the radar?

September 17, 2019 Oli Brown 1 Comment

Today (Tuesday 17th September) the UN Security Council will debate the renewal of the mandate for UNAMA—the UN Assistance Mission…

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Filed under: Afghanistan, climate change, conflict, Trump, UN, UN Security Council, UNAMA

Heating up: mediation and climate change

July 8, 2019 Oli Brown Leave a comment

Mediation – the process of helping groups in, or at risk of, armed conflict settle their differences peacefully – rarely…

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Filed under: climate change, conflict, mediation

Driven to Extraction: Can Sand Mining be Sustainable?

June 6, 2019 Oli Brown 2 Comments

Sand is a critical ingredient for many of the materials that we take for granted: concrete, glass and asphalt. Sand and…

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Filed under: aggregates, concrete, mining, sand, sustainability, urbanisation

Better the Devil You Know: The Importance of Measuring Climate Risk

June 3, 2019 Oli Brown Leave a comment

Avoiding the worst impacts of climate change requires a better understanding of what those may be and impartial ways to…

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Filed under: adaptation, climate change, measurement, mitigation, resilience, risk

Stopping the Great Splintering: A 5-Step Plan to Revive Multilateralism

May 24, 2019 Oli Brown Leave a comment

I miss 2015. It was a landmark year. In the space of 12 short months governments signed a slew of…

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Filed under: Brexit, multilateralism, nativism, populism, sustainable development, Trump, UN

Craft and the Council: Will Kelly Knight Craft end climate action at the UN Security Council?

April 11, 2019 Oli Brown 3 Comments

In late February, Donald Trump announced Kelly Knight Craft, a 57-year-old Kentucky native, as his pick to succeed Nikki Haley…

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Filed under: climate change, conflict, Kelly Knight Craft, security, Security Council, Trump, UN, USA

Who defends the defenders?

March 28, 2019 Oli Brown 2 Comments

They came for Niloufar more than a year ago. On 24th and 25th January 2018, Niloufar Bayani, a former colleague…

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Filed under: activist, anyhopefornature, Environment, environmental defenders, freeniloufar, Iran, PWHF

Fool Britannia: Britain’s position in the world after Brexit

March 14, 2019 Oli Brown 2 Comments

Britain once ruled the waves, but, for the moment, its dominion is confined to the airwaves. With Theresa May’s tweaked…

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Filed under: Brexit, England, foreign policy, multilateralism, UK

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