Climate Policy & Environment
Climate Action for Global Stability
The Working Group Climate Policy & Environment explores the intersection of climate change and global security, analyzing its impact on migration, resource scarcity, and geopolitical tensions. It assesses international climate agreements, renewable energy policies, and conservation efforts. Monthly briefings feature research on integrating sustainability into foreign policy and fostering international cooperation to mitigate climate-related security risks.
Western Balkans
Thematic Working Group Briefs – 2026 Western Balkans: EU, Environment & Accession The Western Balkan EU accession candidates (Albania, North Macedonia,…
DRC: Rich land, hungry people.
Food insecurity in Eastern DRC is structurally driven by conflict, displacement, and livelihood collapse, not scarce land. Climate change, hazardous…
European Integration and EU External Action
Main question: How does legal fragmentation across EU external action frameworks—security, human rights, economic policy, and digital governance—affect its…
Fuel Crisis: Car dependence & Environmental Impact
Argument: How Australia’s car-dependent urban policy model and heavy reliance on imports for fuel expose Australian cities and the national economy to…
Accountability Gaps in Indonesia’s Palm Oil
How do governance failures and land conflicts in Indonesia’s palm oil sector contribute to broader climate security risks? Weak legal frameworks and…
Justice Beyond the Courtroom in Africa
In what ways does transnational litigation function as both a challenge to and a reproduction of corporate impunity in the strategies of environmental justice…
Critical political ecology (CPE)
– The concept of critical political ecology highlights the link between the moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement and contemporary…
Resilient Roots: EU Tech Grants for Farmers
How can the EU accelerate climate tool adoption for smallholders in Africa and SE Asia without increasing financial risk? Loan-based models create debt burdens…
Policy Incompatibility in the European Union
Do the monetary costs expected to be saved by businesses through simplification initiatives outweigh the possibly detrimental costs for environmental…
Bolivia’s Environmental Policy Since Evo Morales
Is it possible for Bolivia to promote an environmental-forward political agenda while reproducing the structures of a neoliberal-capitalisit world system?…
Hydro-Hegemony: Türkiye’s Leverage over Syria Iraq
How does Türkiye’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) transform upstream water control into geoeconomic leverage over Syria and Iraq? This article argues that…
Hurricane Melissa and Climate Disaster Governance
How do military post-disaster operations illustrate the role and consequences of militaries as actors in climate governance? The intensity of Hurricane Melissa…
Water as an Instrument of War
Should the environment be used as an instrument of war ?
The Green Transition in the Western Balkans
The 2026 CBAM implementation confronts the Western Balkans with a fundamental paradox: coal-dependent economies face €1.2bn in annual costs yet lack carbon…
COP30: Europe Under Pressure Without the US
MQ: How has Europe navigated COP30’s climate negotiations and energy transition amid the US absence? MA: With the US absent, Europe took center stage,…
Power Struggles in the Energy Transition
How does China’s dominance in critical minerals and clean-tech manufacturing reshape global power in the energy transition? This brief argues that China’s…
Climate Linked Instability in the Sahel and Horn
How does climate stress reshape patterns of authority and instability in high-risk African states? Using Burkina Faso and Somalia, the brief shows that…
The Pacific’s Climate Financing Dilemma
How do Pacific Small Island Developing States assess the COP29 Triple Finance Framework ahead of COP30? Climate finance supports PSIDS in reducing their…
Ambition at Risk
“- How does the EU’s failure to submit a binding 2035 climate target affect its ability to agree on a 2040 target and maintain credibility in international…
Critical Raw Materials in Argentina and Brazil
Main Question: How do Argentina and Brazil balance climate rhetoric with mining policy on critical raw materials? Argument: Despite opposite discourses (Lula’s…
