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Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl
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Benjamin Pohl@TheRealBenPohl
15 Nov 2022
What does the #ClimateCrisis mean for 🇩🇪’s security & how should it feature in its upcoming security strategy? Short 🧵 to my article for @49security 👇, enlisting IR theory and Spaghetti Westerns to argue why our understanding of national security needs to broaden (1/8)
49security@49security
14 Nov 2022
Global public goods – above all, a habitable planet – are preconditions for security, writes @TheRealBenPohl. His take: For 🇩🇪's security strategy to succeed, it must confront the #ClimateCrisis. What could a climate-sensitive security policy look like? fourninesecurity.de/en/2022/…
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In case you were wondering: quick synthesis 👇 on what happened in #German politics during the past 25 hours
ImmerMüde@fraeuleinoy
7 Nov 2024
Replying to @dw_politics
A small correction
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The real #Doppelwumms
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Shouldn't she rather be trying to cross a canyon in #Arizona, @NewYorker?
Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp
4 Nov 2024
New Yorker cover this week.
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"voters claiming to be hard-headed are overlooking the tail risk of a #Trump presidency. By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace." 👇 economist.com/leaders/2024/1…
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Interesting synthesis on the development of UN(SC)-#AU Cooperation by @SCRtweets 👇 securitycouncilreport.org/mo…

In Hindsight: UN-AU Cooperation: A Path Toward Networked Multilateralism or Fragmented Responses?

October was a significant month for UN-AU cooperation. This month’s In Hindsight examines the progress and challenges in UN-AU cooperation and offers ideas for charting the way forward.

securitycouncilreport.org
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Some good news 👇 "the EU achieved a net 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 compared to the previous year ... Emissions are now 37% below 1990 levels. The EU’s GDP has grown by 68% over the same period." climate.ec.europa.eu/news-yo…

Climate Action Progress Report for 2023 shows the largest annual drop in emissions for decades

The EU achieved a net 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 compared to the previous year.

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Climate Diplomacy and Security@ClimateDiplo
26 Oct 2024
🔎Insights from #BCSCCali 🇨🇴: In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), environmental and biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation & building resilience are intertwined and directly connected with peacebuilding. 🧵 #COP16 #COP16Colombia
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Benjamin Pohl retweeted
Climate Diplomacy and Security@ClimateDiplo
16 Oct 2024
🗓️Join us in Cali, Colombia, at #COP16! We are co-hosting a side event w/ @EnvPeacebuild to explore the potential for coordinated policies on biodiversity & inclusive conservation that foster peacebuilding & social cohesion. 🌱Register: adelph.it/CBDCOP16 #PeaceWithNature
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"Like a deer caught in a lorry’s headlights, European leaders are left hoping the MAGA juggernaut coming their way swerves, lest they become geopolitical roadkill." 👇 Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill economist.com/europe/2024/10…

Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill

A second dose of MAGA will put the EU in a pickle

economist.com
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"Most Americans are not insured against such hammer blows. ... That is why, though the damage done by Helene has been estimated at $250bn, insurers are on the hook for less than 6% of that amount." #HurricaneMilton: Paradise lashed economist.com/leaders/2024/1…

How Florida should respond to Hurricane Milton

Storms like it raise uncomfortable questions about the state’s future

economist.com
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"a candidate who lost the last election, whose party was trounced in the 2018 midterms—a candidate who has never won the popular vote and probably never will—has remade American policy in his image" 👇 The Trumpification of American policy economist.com/leaders/2024/1…

The Trumpification of American policy

No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas

economist.com
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Benjamin Pohl retweeted
Janani Vivekananda@JanVivekananda
10 Oct 2024
Always so inspired hearing incredible work being lead by our #WeatheringRisk Peace Pillar partners. Such great progress achieved in phase 2! So much to build off for phase 3 💪🕊️ @BerghofFnd @Eurpeace @hdcentre
🇩🇪 GER on Peace & Humanitarian Action
@AA_stabilisiert
9 Oct 2024
Back-to-back to #BCSC2024, Director Anka Feldhusen and her climate counterpart Marcus Hicken welcome #WeatheringRisk Peace Pillar partners. Great deep dive on results of climate-linked peacebuilding projects @adelphi_berlin @berghoffnd @Eurpeace @hdcentre Find more info below 👇
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One more highlight at the end of #BCSC2024 - @MAWareSO of @IGADsecretariat, @shektej of @AUC_PAPS & Janet Kabeberi-Macharia of the Kenyan Foreign Ministry highlighting Africa's role in furthering the Climate, Peace and Security agenda at a roundtable hosted by @irlembberlin
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"If parents cannot feed their children, nothing else matters." @ErinSikorsky's favorite line from the US National Security Strategy gets strong traction at the "Feeding resilience" session @ #BCSC2024
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Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett of @PMUN_GUY explains the interconnections between climate, food insecurity and conflict on which #Guyana organized an open debate at the #UNSC earlier this year. #BCSC2024 See also weatheringrisk.org/sites/def…
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She also puts paid to some of the key arguments frequently cited against having the #UNSC discuss Climate, Peace and Security - very much worth listening in to!
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Ambassador @eiskandarov explains #COP29 priorities for the Climate, Peace and Security nexus, including a Peace day at COP29 and an initiative to highlight and connect practical solutions,, the Baku Call for Climate Action for Peace #BCSC2024
Climate Diplomacy and Security@ClimateDiplo
8 Oct 2024
COMING UP NEXT AT #BCSC2024: 🟢 From COP28 Declaration to COP29: Bridging a Climate for Peace to Baku Session info: berlin-climate-security-conf… 📷 WATCH LIVE: adelph.it/BCSC24Livestream @eiskandarov @COP29_AZ @GafgazAdigozal @GermanyDiplo @AzerbaijanMFA
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Benjamin Pohl retweeted
Hector Morales M.@hecworld
8 Oct 2024
“The climate crisis is not only a threat multiplier but an inequality multiplier” David Miliband CEO at the ⁦@RESCUEorg⁩ at the #BCSC2024 ⁦@ClimateDiplo⁩
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Starting right now 👇
Climate Diplomacy and Security@ClimateDiplo
8 Oct 2024
📢STARTING SOON AT #BCSC2024: Climate security in humanitarian, peacekeeping and stabilisation responses - Session info: berlin-climate-security-conf… @unmissmedia @DMiliband @RESCUEorg 📹 WATCH LIVE: adelph.it/BCSC24Livestream
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The @AUC_PAPS's @shektej stresses the critical role leadership has played in the process of formulating a Common African Position on climate, peace and security #BCSC2024
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