How the humanitarian consequences of environmental degradation and climate change are aggravated by armed conflict in the Near and Middle East, and which adaptation approaches are emerging to face the compounding impact using examples from Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
The destruction of natural resources and damage to ecosystems has potentially severe consequences for the lives, livelihoods and future of Syrian citizens, as well as for the country’s climate resilience.
This report looks at the question of electricity access in relationship to South Sudan’s conflict and the unique options to help harness renewable energy as a tool for peace and development across the country.
Grievances over how to manage water, land, and oil played an indispensable role in three long civil wars that have left the citizens of South Sudan highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks.
The Syria crisis continues to fuel the largest displacement crisis in the world. Ecological degradation and climate disruption are impacting and shaping the humanitarian and development operations that have been mounted in response.
A 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it to Egypt would desiccate the world’s second largest wetland, impacting its rich wildlife and the rains on which the region depends.
A brief arguing that the lack of effective regulation throughout the charcoal value chain in South Sudan is leading to tragic consequences.
NUPI briefing paper on Iraq’s exposure to the effects of climate change.
