Alec Crawford

Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East

Migration has always been an important strategy for coping with variability and change in Africa’s Great Lakes region.

In the face of the climate crisis, there is an urgent need for the mining sector to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Private sector engagement will be essential to the success of the NAP process, whether through direct financing or active participation in adaptation actions. Governments can play a key role in enabling this private sector engagement by promoting a number of enabling factors.

The world now faces the risk of a dramatic rise in hunger, barely 12 years after the devastating food price crisis. What can be learned from the past?

This scoping report has been developed to better understand the role of CSOs in climate action and their level of access to climate finance in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region.

This report is based on the findings of research carried out in two community wildlife conservancies in northern Kenya, demonstrating how climate change is affecting the distribution and prevalence of natural resources in Kenya.

We sit down with Alec Crawford to talk about the relationship between conflict and the artisanal mining sector, and to see if there are opportunities for it to operate alongside peacebuilding efforts.

Migration is playing a significant role in the deterioration of the Lake Albert ecosystem in Buliisa District, as migrants, mainly coming from neighbouring provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are pulled to the region by the economic opportunities.

A growing movement of projects and partnerships is using locally driven and gender-responsive nature-based solutions to address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Scaling up this work to match the urgency and reach of the crises will be a challenge—but it’s one we must embrace.