The Top 5 Posts of January 2021
The nature of climate risks complicates efforts to pinpoint and articulate climate’s impact on conflict. In January’s top post, Peter Schwartzstein draws on years of environmental reporting across the MENA region to share examples of how environmental and climate changes are driving conflict in areas where the climate angle isn’t immediately obvious.
Speaking of climate and conflict, the recently released Global Fragility Strategy fails to include climate change as a driver of fragility, notes ECSP Director Lauren Risi in the fifth top post. It does, however, signal a growing awareness of the role that environmental issues play in fragility, conflict, and peace.