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Published in: openSecurityNepal: chronicle of a disaster foretold
The Nepalese earthquake was a product of natural causes. But the full death toll and slow recovery are not.
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Published in: openSecurityClimate-chaos migrants set to face increasingly closed borders
Climate change is set to trigger dangerously soaring temperatures this century, forcing many of humankind’s most...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the demonstrations ...
The popular outpouring in France, taken with the climate marches in September with which it would not at first be...
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Published in: openSecurityLatin Americans pay price for corporate environmental destruction
As the COP20 conference comes to a close in Lima, can the corporations whose ‘externalities’ foster climate change...
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Published in: openSecurityClimate summit, climate justice
The climate summit called today by the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, will not bring the commitments...
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Published in: openSecurityA fox whispering in your ear: corporate solutions to climate change
No industry, especially one as powerful as the fossil fuel industry, is going to allow governments or international...
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Published in: openSecurityAn ambiguous role: NATO in the Arctic
Conditions in the Arctic in the 21st century come complete with territorial claims and lucrative opportunities. What...
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Published in: openSecurityTrapped by borders, a global flotsam and jetsam
They arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling...
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Published in: openSecurityThe 95% doctrine: climate change as a weapon of mass destruction
When we speak of WMD, we usually think of weapons - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that are delivered in a...
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Published in: openSecurityThe energy boom in Cyprus: pipeline to peace?
With energy supply in Europe a renewed concern, will the large reserves of natural gas in Cyprus become a peacemaker...
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Published in: openSecurityThe conflict horizon
The last two decades have seen a growing global appetite for peace but unless concerted, informed action is taken...
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Published in: openSecurityCorporate hegemony and the Keystone Pipeline
Environmental management consistently projects an image that the risks of climate change can be managed and the...
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Published in: openSecuritySustainable security and the challenges of 2014
openSecurity's newest column explores the drivers of global insecurities and addresses their root causes. We look...
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Published in: openSecuritySharing our future: how the world can avert climate chaos
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calculated a ‘budget’ for greenhouse gas emissions if...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity Council reform: why it matters and why it's not happening
On too many issues of global concern, the United Nations faces gridlock. The Security Council, embodying as it does...
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Published in: HomeThe global climate cliff
A combination of extreme weather events and a coming temperature rise may be enough to induce the serious political...
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Published in: HomeThe climate shift: think and prepare
The imminence of severe climate disruption makes the work of those planning for the event more vital than ever.
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Published in: openIndiaIndian farmers trapped and desperate
A wave of suicides has swept through the Indian farming community in recent years as, driven into heavy debt by...
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Published in: HomeChances for Peace, the second decade
The world faces immense and unavoidable security, climate and economic tests. In the effort to meet them, the second...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Arctic: treasure in the vacuum
The geopolitical scramble to exploit the resource wealth unearthed by climate change exposes enduring classic...