War has been assessed through loss of life, loss of property and loss of economy. But one victim is frequently overlooked: the environment. After the fighting stops, forests burn, rivers are contaminated, farmland becomes wasteland, and biodiversity is diminished. While humanitarian consequences dominate global attention, environmental agendas remain largely absent from international policy discussions. There […]
Introduction If a farmer’s crop is destroyed by a drought or the coastal village is washed away by a cyclone, the first victims counted are the crops, houses, and livestock. However, another more subtle effect occurs behind the closed doors, that is young daughters are being married off to cut financial costs, to pay a […]
Introduction One garbage truck of plastic enters the ocean every minute. It is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish by weight. But plastic pollution has been brushed under the carpet as a local waste management issue and not a global governance crisis for decades. That is all […]
In 2019, mourners came to the site of Iceland’s Okjökull glacier, which no longer exists. There they set up a plaque not for the present, but for the future generations who would come after them: “We know what’s happening and what needs to be done; only you know if we did”. This inscription is disturbing […]
Why Climate Diplomacy Is Breaking the People Meant to Save the Planet? As the delegates left the COP30 in November 2025, something was omitted from the official UNFCCC press release: The negotiating teams from Panama, Uruguay and Colombia stood as arms up in the inverted-V shape for a point of order on the dais, but […]
When it comes to COP conferences, climate policy memos, and classrooms of future climate negotiators, there is a secret everyone in the climate diplomacy community knows but only few are interested in blurting it out, and that is; the people who are tasked with saving the planet are among its most prolific individual polluters. And […]
5.5%, that is the annual global GHG emissions from the world’s military forces and their supply chains in 2022, which is equivalent to the total carbon footprint of the aviation and shipping sectors. The armed forces of the world, if they were a country, would be the fourth largest emitter on earth, after Russia and […]
Why Climate Diplomacy Is More Relevant in 2026 Than Ever Before As the world grapples with the consequences of the U.S.-Israel military strike against Iran, the Strait of Hormuz closure and oil prices rise, and as embargoes are lifted on Russian crude, the question arises with uncomfortable urgency especially this May 2026: Is climate diplomacy […]
President Prabowo Subianto personally delivered a speech on fiscal policy at the DPR plenary session on Wednesday (20/5/2026). This was out of the ordinary. Previously, such delivery was done by the Minister of Finance. The most important point of the speech was the restructuring of the export scheme for coal, palm oil, and ferro-nickel. Starting […]
Climate diplomacy has undergone a profound transformation in the last three decades. Governments have established mechanisms for mitigation, adaptation, and climate finance through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement. Despite these successes, however, one of the most important human impacts of climate change has received […]
Reston Dennis Juah 
Noor Ul Ain 
Hassan Barrie 
Hoby Nasandratra Andriamiandrisoa 