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Tag: Human Security

Climate Emergency ‘A Danger To Peace’, UN Security Council Hears

07/24/2020 Don Wallace

The climate emergency generated by global warming, is exacerbating existing risks to international peace and security, while also creating new…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy Filed under: Human Security, Paris, UN Security Council

The Netherlands Shows The Way In Tackling The Climate Emergency

01/11/2020 Don Wallace

The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday ordered the country’s government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 1990 levels,…

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Posted in: Climate Filed under: Human Security, Litigation

Climate Change And Political Chaos: A Deadly Mix In Honduras Dengue Epidemic

12/30/2019 Don Wallace

Rising temperatures are increasing the range of disease-bearing mosquitoes globally. In Honduras, which accounted for more than 40 percent of…

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Posted in: Climate Filed under: Disease, Human Security

What Climate Change Tells Us About Being Human

12/20/2019 Don Wallace

Climate change reveals once and for all that humanity has no special dispensation to transcend its material conditions. The climate…

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Posted in: Climate Filed under: activism, Human Security, politics

The Climate Crisis Is Global, But These 6 Places Face The Most Severe Consequences

10/03/2019 Don Wallace

Developing countries, places with widespread poverty, and countries with ineffective governments sometimes face the gravest risks from the changing climate,…

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Posted in: Climate Filed under: Human Security, Sustainable Development

Conflict, Climate Change Among Factors That Increase ‘Desperation That Enables Human Trafficking To Flourish’, Says UN Chief

07/30/2019 Don Wallace

To mark the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed that “human trafficking is a heinous crime that…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy Filed under: Human Security, International Policy

Australia Faces Climate Change Human Rights Case

05/13/2019 Don Wallace

In a first such case to be lodged with the UN, indigenous people from the low-lying Torres Strait Islands off…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy Filed under: Human Security, International Policy, Litigation

Damage by Human Activity to Planet Puts Human Health at Risk, UN Environment Programme Warns

03/14/2019 Don Wallace

Human activity is damaging the planet so badly, exacerbated by climate change, that it will increasingly put our health at risk,…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy Filed under: Human Health, Human Security, International Policy

CARE International report finds world’s biggest humanitarian disasters, aggravated by climate change, go virtually uncovered

02/25/2019 Don Wallace

A new report by CARE International finds that humanitarian crises in 2018, affecting millions of people around the world, garnered…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy Filed under: Human Security, International Policy, Media Coverage, National Policy

Climate Change included in the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community

01/30/2019 Don Wallace

The Worldwide Threat Assessment, compiled by the country’s intelligence agencies was discussed at Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.  Among the…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy Filed under: Human Security, National Security

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