Craft and the Council: Will Kelly Knight Craft end climate action at the UN Security Council?
In late February, Donald Trump announced Kelly Knight Craft, a 57-year-old Kentucky native, as his pick to succeed Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the
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Who defends the defenders?
They came for Niloufar more than a year ago. On 24th and 25th January 2018, Niloufar Bayani, a former colleague of mine at UN Environment,
Fool Britannia: Britain’s position in the world after Brexit
Britain once ruled the waves, but, for the moment, its dominion is confined to the airwaves. With Theresa May’s tweaked deal ruled out for a
UNEA: The most important environmental meeting that most people have never heard of
As I write, delegates are starting to arrive in Nairobi for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The Assembly starts in earnest on Monday 11th
Podcast: The Security Council’s role in addressing climate-related security risks
With climate change increasingly being seen as a security issue, there is a question about what role the United Nations Security Council could and should
In praise of small ‘b’ bureaucracy
Stick with me here, but I’m going to try to argue that for those working in international development, bureaucracy is something to lean into, rather
Erik Solheim: what he got right, what he got wrong, and what the new UN Environment chief should do next
Make no mistake, when Erik Solheim resigned as head of UN Environment on 20th November 2018, less than two and a half years into what
Are humanitarians going green?
In 2018, a staggering 141 million people across the world required humanitarian assistance. With the need for aid far outstripping available resources, it is no
The Brumadinho mine tailing collapse: an avoidable disaster
The collapse of the Brumadinho mine tailings dam in Minas Gerais state in Brazil on 25th January was a triple tragedy. First, of course, is