Syria

• March 3, 2022

  New Report: How Climate and Conflict Are Fragmenting Rural Syria

  After more than a decade of war, one might be forgiven for assuming that Syrians had seen almost every form of suffering imaginable. But that’s not what it looks like in rural parts of the country, where miserly rains, new twists in the conflict, and a grimmer macroeconomic outlook turned 2021 into arguably the worst…

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  November 5, 2021

  A Recipe for Perpetual Insecurity? The Case of a Syrian Protected Area

  By Peter Schwartzstein As snapshots of Syria’s environmental degradation go, Jebel Abdelaziz, in the northeastern part of the country, is hard to beat. The mountain’s rocky flanks offer little for livestock. The semi-arid surrounding plain offers little for man or beast. Extending over 50km (31 miles) from Hasakah into the lightly populated scrub in the…

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  April 29, 2021

  The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Need for Unity Against Them

  By Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü I watched a few days ago, via webcast, the proceedings of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Conference of States Parties (CSP) held in The Hague. The main issue was, again, the use of chemical weapons (CW) in Syria. The CSP voted a draft decision submitted by western…

• June 10, 2020

  Climate Change Entails More Than Changing Temperatures: Disease and Security Implications

  By Leah Emanuel In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Matthew Vollrath, a journalism Master’s student at Stanford, has created a podcast entitled “Life in the Coronaverse.” This five-part series explores the linkages between the coronavirus and climate change, how we respond to both, the partisan divides impacting action, and more. In the third episode,…

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  July 18, 2019

  Femia on TRT World: The Strategic Benefit of Acting on Climate and Security

  In an interview segment released on July 17 by TRT World, Francesco Femia, the CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks and Co-Founder of the Center for Climate and Security, spoke with host Ghida Fakhry and WRI’s Rebecca Carter about the increasing evidence of a connection between climate change and conflict, the  growing bipartisan consensus…