I've been trying to avoid commenting on India's current heat crisis. With the stacatto of extreme events becoming louder every year, there seems to be an almost morbid media (& scicomm) frenzy when a hazard hits. (1)

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Risky proposals to dim the sun and slow global warming are gathering steam - disagreements boiled over at the UN last week. For Scientific American, Chandra Bhushan and I explain how #geoengineering research must be equitable, transparent, globally regulated. #UNEA6 shorturl.at/aetPS

Read Fletcher PhD candidate Tarun Gopalakrishnan’s new piece in Scientific American!

ICYMI | Check out Tarun Gopalakrishnan and Chandra Bhushan's op-ed for Scientific American on solar geoengineering and why research should be equitable, transparent, and globally regulated. scientificamerican.com/article/sunlig…

The role of the BRICS group in international AI governance is “poised to expand,” writes Fletcher senior fellow Mihaela Papa in a new piece for World Politics Review. worldpoliticsreview.com/brics-group-ar…

NEW | Postdoctoral Scholar Nora Hampl examines the potential of renewable energy to enhance Indigenous livelihoods and safeguard Brazil's forest ecosystems. Read her full publication here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Corruption is one of the most significant threats to global #peace and security in the 21st century. In a new report for PeaceRep and World Peace Foundation, Jared Miller explores the political role of corruption & how it can be addressed ⬇️ peacerep.org/publication/un…

Before the release of U.S. Institute of Peace's special report on 'traumatic' or unplanned decarbonization (co-authored with Benjamin Spatz, Jared Miller, Tarun Gopalakrishnan) Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation) and I talk about some of its headline findings in this Q&A. usip.org/publications/2…

“The climate crisis need not inspire resignation or dread,” writes Dean ad interim Kelly Sims Gallagher in a piece for Foreign Affairs. “That is because the strategy to tackle climate change that governments have developed in the last 30 years is working.” foreignaffairs.com/world/climate-…

"Hope is not a strategy, but a strategy does exist to restrain climate change, and it is one that should give even pessimists grounds for optimism," writes Kelly Sims Gallagher in her latest piece for Foreign Affairs.

"In most cases, offering more support rather than restrictions may be a better choice for balancing growth, climate, and security objectives," writes Baihe Gu on green industrial policy. climatepolicylab.org/climatesmart/2…

ICYMI | Check out Professor Maulik Jagnani's #ClimateSmart blog on air pollution in South Asia and the effectiveness of air purifiers ⬇️ climatepolicylab.org/climatesmart/2…

In our new Peaceworks report, The Fletcher School's Aditya Sarkar, Tarun Gopalakrishnan and Jared Miller, World Peace Foundation's Alex de Waal and UCT Graduate School of Business's Benjamin Spatz examine six cases of de facto decarbonization to examine the impact of decarbonization in fragile states. usip.org/publications/2…

"Crucially, governments must do more to raise climate financing for developing countries that have done little to create the crisis but already suffer some of its worst effects." More from Dean Kelly Sims Gallagher ⬇️ foreignaffairs.com/world/climate-…

NEW | "Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level" by Bethany Tietjen, Jenna Clark, and Erin Coughlan de Perez in Global Environmental Change Read here ➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Oil is key to Nigeria's political system, but what happens when #oil revenues go bust? In a new Environment and Security article, I present some lessons from the 2020 oil crash & the troubling implications for an #energytransition in #Nigeria. World Peace Foundation doi.org/10.1177/275387…

NEW | "Water usage in cooling systems for electricity production: an event study of retrofitted coal-fired power plants in the United States" by Junior Research Fellow Kate Hua-Ke Chi and Professor Melissa McCracken Read their publication here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

The special issue of Environment and Security on Decarbonization and Peace is now finally out! Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation) and I wrote the editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…. Much more importantly, some amazing scholars have their papers in the special issue. Please check it out!