According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), climate change and related disasters are, more and more, becoming a threat to humanity and, therefore, one of the most significant drivers for migration. Temperatures and sea-levels are rising significantly as frequent and violent wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, earthquakes, and tsunamis demonstrate (1). As for migration, it is not hard to believe …

To understand how we got to this extremely severe environmental situation, it should be specified that the international community has started to take action against climate change through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which entered into force on March 21, 1994. The Convention aims at formulating legal frameworks and principles for cooperation among States to mitigate …

According to the UN definition “climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns [that] may be natural. […] But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.” Climate change has led to a progressive increase of Earth’s temperatures and, above all, …

The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 which was completed less than a month ago in the Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh sparked a lot of discussions on whether it brought any actual progress toward the sort of climate action required to restrict climate crisis and environmental degradation. As the second most attended climate summit of all years, with more …

In the summer of 2022 climate crisis became more real than ever, with heat waves, droughts, and floods striking one after the other. Extreme heat all over the world led to wildfires and droughts, Hurricane Lan hit the US and the Caribbean with catastrophic force, while Pakistan experienced severe flooding following record-breaking monsoon rainfalls. Global warming has fueled environmental degradation …

The EU must redefine itself as a defensible civilian power in an international environment. In doing so, it faces two revisionist superpowers that are becoming increasingly aggressive. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine came as a reality shock. Widespread assumptions by politicians and researchers alike have been disproved. Prioritizing security together with Russia and neglecting security preparedness against Russia has …

The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution no, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal human right. The historic decision mirrored the Human Rights Council resolution in 2021. Declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right aimed at reducing environmental injustice, which often discriminates against women, children and indigenous communities. This …

It’s nothing new that the African continent is more vulnerable to crises than other parts of the world (the Western world in particular). This is also true for the most talked-about problem of climate change, which challenges countries that have few means to respond either because of a lack of money or because of their unstable socio-political conditions. According to …

Currently 40% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions come from the energy sector and it is therefore clear that if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the energy sector is an industry that deserves significant attention. Since not all energy sources pollute in the same way, many countries are striving to gradually increase energy production from renewable or …

Although the effects of an uncontrolled global climate warming and the impact over world’s environments and habitats that would follow are well covered by the scientific community, decision-makers should also be concerned over the impact that the unavoidable future we might be walking towards will have over the most vulnerable part of the world’s population: children. The literature regarding the …