Climate Security in Afghanistan: Should it even be on the radar?
Today (Tuesday 17th September) the UN Security Council will debate the renewal of the mandate for UNAMA—the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan—a twice-yearly event that
Stopping the Great Splintering: A 5-Step Plan to Revive Multilateralism
I miss 2015. It was a landmark year. In the space of 12 short months governments signed a slew of groundbreaking agreements: the Sustainable Development
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
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