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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

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

UNEA: The most important environmental meeting that most people have never heard of

March 7, 2019 Oli Brown 1 Comment

As I write, delegates are starting to arrive in Nairobi for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The Assembly starts…

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Filed under: Environment, UN, UN Environment, UNEA, UNEA4, UNEP

Podcast: The Security Council’s role in addressing climate-related security risks

March 5, 2019 Oli Brown Leave a comment

With climate change increasingly being seen as a security issue, there is a question about what role the United Nations…

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Filed under: climate change, conflict, risk, Security Council, UN

In praise of small ‘b’ bureaucracy

February 20, 2019 Oli Brown 4 Comments

Stick with me here, but I’m going to try to argue that for those working in international development, bureaucracy is…

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Filed under: bureaucracy, UN, UN Environment

Erik Solheim: what he got right, what he got wrong, and what the new UN Environment chief should do next

February 13, 2019 Oli Brown 10 Comments

Make no mistake, when Erik Solheim resigned as head of UN Environment on 20th November 2018, less than two and…

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Filed under: Environment, Erik Solheim, UN, UN Environment, UNEP

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