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Circular, Equitable, and Renewable: Scrutinizing Mineral Requirements to Build a Just Energy Transition

2026 | Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International
Livia Charles, Allison Fabrizio, Osprey Orielle Lake, and Jillianne Lyon

The scope of this policy brief examines the implications of decarbonization, specifically focusing on mining related to renewable energy development; it also identifies some of the critical…

From Conflict to Climate Crisis: How Wars Shape the Future Environment

2026 | Journal of Environmental Management
Doorgha Ragoobur

Military activity is a current blind spot in global climate policy. This systematic review synthesises evidence from 263 studies and 36 reports published between 2014…

Afghanistan’s Climate Crisis: A Call for Decentralised and Inclusive Finance

2026 | Toda Peace Institute
Assem Mayar

This policy brief, based on new data and analysis published by the author in the Afghanistan Analysts Network, outlines Afghanistan’s escalating economic losses due to…

The Peacebuilding Promise of Environmental Management: Lessons on Environment, Climate Change, Security and Peacebuilding

2026 | Conciliation Resources

This paper identifies how and when environmental cooperation can support collaboration between conflict parties, and examines how the intentional, inclusive management of natural resources can…

Extraterritoriality, Climate Change, and National Security: In Defense of Extraterritorial Laws

2026 | American Journal of International Law
Danielle Ireland-Piper

Extraterritorial jurisdiction inherently tests the boundary between sovereign governance and international cooperation. It hovers between unilateralism and cosmopolitan conceptions of obligation. Evan Criddle has argued…

A Pacific Climate–Peace Nexus

2026 | Toda Peace Institute
Timothy Bryar and Jamie Tarawa

This policy brief argues that the Pacific Islands region offers a distinct and instructive approach to thinking about the relationship between climate change and peace.…

Advancing Environmental Peacebuilding: Pathways for Progress

2026 | Springer
Olivier Serrat

This book offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction to environmental peacebuilding—an emerging field at the nexus of climate change, conflict transformation, and natural resource governance. Tracing…

Climate Impact Profile: Syria

2026 | adelphi
Sam Geldin

Syria is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, a challenge compounded by protracted conflict and fragile governance. This profile provides an overview of…

Climate Change, Resource Conflicts, and Rural Women's Empowerment in Nigeria Amid Democratic Erosion: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective

2026 | Women's Studies International Forum
Seun Bamidele

The crises of climate change, resource conflicts, and the decline of democracy significantly impact the empowerment of rural women in Nigeria's agrarian areas. There is…

Toward Gender-responsive Forest Governance and Climate Actions in Myanmar: Insights from a Systematic Review

2026 | Women's Studies International Forum
Nyein Chan, Khin Nilar Swe, Kyaw Win. Ho Thi Phuong, and Siti Kusujiarti

This study presents the first systematic review of gender dynamics in forest and climate governance in Myanmar, aiming to synthesize existing knowledge, identify research gaps,…

Renewable Energy as Peace Infrastructure: How Decentralized Power Shapes Peacebuilding in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Africa

2026 | Stanley Center for Peace and Security
Hubert Kinkoh

Across fragile and conflict-affected settings in Africa, renewable energy can do more than deliver electricity. It can also function as peace infrastructure.

A new paper from…

Sustainable Peace from the Ground up: Natural Resource Peace Agreements in Nigeria [Audio]

2026 | Climate Diplomacy Podcast

In Nigeria's Middle Belt, farmer-herder conflicts over land and natural resources have claimed thousands of lives in recent years. Climate change – through prolonged droughts,…

Climate Dialogue as Functional Peacebuilding in South Asia: Environmental Cooperation as a Contributor to Regional Peace

2026 | IPRI Journal
Dmitry Erokhin

This article examines the potential of climate dialogue and practical environmental cooperation to serve as a form of functional peacebuilding in South Asia. It argues…

Cooling the Heat: Mediation in a Warming World

2026 | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Sebastian Kratzer

This paper shows how mediation is helping states and communities manage natural resources more peacefully and explores where and how climate- and environment-related mediation is…

Breaking Barriers to Sustain Youth Participation in and Beyond Brazil

2026 | Routledge
Jennifer Lauren and Helena Branco

The global media coverage of the youth climate movement has ignited debate on how to meaningfully engage youth in political decision-making. While not all youth…

Climate Security Connects Fragile and Strong States via Cascading Effects: A Review Article

2026 | Political Science Quarterly
Paula Kivimaa

The article focuses on the growing significance of security in the context of climate change and recent global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and…

The AI Revolution and Environmental Security: Climate, Natural Resources, and Geopolitical Competition at the Dawn of Artificial Intelligence

2026 | Alps Analytica

AI drives economic growth and technological innovation. However, its rapid expansion depends on resource-intensive infrastructure with hefty environmental costs and geopolitical implications. This briefing analyses…

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet - Lake Chad, June 2026

2026 | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Cedric de Coning, Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Freedom Onuoha, Saibou Issa, and Thor Olav Iversen

The lives and livelihoods of local communities in the borderlands of the Lake Chad Basin are disrupted by both climate change and conflict, which are…

From Slow Violence to Ecological Crisis and Hard Violence: The Impacts of Climate Change and Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin on Tonle Sap Lake

2026 | Water International
Mak Sithirith

Hydropower and climate change have made impacts on ecosystems and communities dependent on the Mekong River. Some studies present these impacts as slow violence or…

Integrating Climate Change into Peace Mediation – Why It Matters and How to Do It

2026 | Climate Diplomacy
Sebastian Kratzer and Lina Hillert

Research has significantly advanced our understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and conflict, yet this knowledge is often unavailable or offers little practical…

Climate Action as Peace Enabler: Lessons from the Sahel on Delivering Peace and Social Dividends in Fragile Settings

2026 | ODI Global
Camille Laville, Leigh Mayhew, Maman Noura Idi Mamadou, and Amir Khouzam

This case study examines the Justice and Stability in the Sahel (JASS) programme in Mali and Niger to explore whether climate action in the Sahel…

Ecocide Question: Should the Crime of “Ecocide” Be Added to the Rome Statute?

2026 | ICC Forum
Rachel Killean, Christopher Lentz, Rosemary Mwanza, Daniel Adjin Odonkor, Stavros Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, and Darryl Robinson

In September 2024, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa proposed amending the Rome Statute to add ecocide as a fifth international crime, later supported by the Democratic…

How Can Climate Change Help Us Build a More Peaceful World? [Video]

2026 | TEDxMidAtlantic
Florian Krampe

A cracked riverbed, a drought, people on the move — and the headline writes itself: climate change breeds war. Florian Krampe has spent his career…

Intersecting Futures: Global Trends Shaping and Shaped by Climate Change over the Next Century

2026 | Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Thijs van Aken and Laura Birkman

Climate change is no longer a distant environmental challenge – it is rapidly reshaping global stability, economic resilience, and geopolitical competition. In Intersecting Futures, Thijs van…

Environmental Peacebuilding in Difficult Contexts: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conditions for Communal Cooperation in Somalia

2026 | Journal of Peace Research
Osman M. Jama, Tobias Ide, Oliver Fritsch, and Paul Taucher

This article examines the conditions under which local environmental peacebuilding emerges and is sustained in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, with a focus on intercommunal water…