As the global community grapples with the urgent need for sustainable practices, the European Union (EU), supposedly a leader in environmental initiatives, is under scrutiny for its sluggish progress in ensuring a green transition. Despite lofty promises and rhetoric, the EU’s actions thus far seem inadequate in addressing the pressing challenges of climate change. The first issue is delayed implementation. …

Background The environment and inflicting damage on the environment as a means or method of warfare is not new. Manipulating environmental conditions, such as instigating floods or using chemicals to harm the environment has existed throughout the decades. Indeed, deliberately inflicting harm on the environment can have considerable consequences in wartime especially on the civilian population and has been the …

With the just published draft agreement for the COP28 meeting in Dubai on climate change fails to ask countries to eliminate coal, oil, and other fossil fuels on a gradual basis despite this. The critics say that some of the wording in the document has been manipulated by the so-called oil rich countries with an intention of deemphasizing the need to …

In today’s times global warming is increasing at a very quick pace from the melting glaciers and increasing temperatures around the world. Such immense climate disruption gives no room for future geopolitical strains that could impede rapid collective efforts which could affect the international security and co-operation worldwide. During 2021, a UN body called Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its …

To say that climate change is the sole cause of conflict is to say something improper. In fact, there are always other factors that can contribute to the erosion of violence, such as political, economic, and social factors. However, the impacts of climate change might increase the risk of conflict: extreme weather conditions and related disasters can damage economies following …

The current situation in northern Syria is one of open desperation since little to no humanitarian is being actually given to the Syrians, with the vast majority of the aid coming from the West being almost entirely driven to Turkey and neglecting the thousands of Syrians that are in extreme need for help and aid. The Syrian regime has also …

There are conflicts that arise because the dispute that leads to armed confrontation has to do with the abundance of natural resources in the country or region of the country where the war is taking place. The abundance of natural resources per se is not the sole trigger for conflict, crisis, and civil war, but there are in fact other …