The annual climate negotiations began this week in Cancun, Mexico. Faculty, students, and staff from the CCAPS program have written a number of important studies that will inform discussions about the effects of climate change and how to address the problem.
Catherine Weaver is currently leading a year-long Policy Research Project (PRP) course on adaptation aid at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. CCAPS research assistant for the class Christine Ackerson, a Master of Public Affairs student, will attend the Cancun conference to present preliminary results of the PRP. The course aims to develop a comprehensive database of aid programs that contribute to climate change adaptation in Africa. In the coming months, students in the PRP will travel to Kenya, Malawi, and Ethiopia to carry out fieldwork in support of the project. An initial summary of the project is available in this recent policy brief: International Development Assistance for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: The Aid Scramble.
Josh Busby also recently released a new report for the German Marshall Fund on Mapping Climate Change and Security in North Africa, as well as a report for the Washington think tank Resources for the Future on China and Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Engagement.
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby has been named the recipient of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving the World Order for scholarship presented in his 2022 book, "States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security." His work was based, in part, on his studies within Strauss Center programs on Complex Emergencies and Political Instability in Asia...
On April 21, Ashley Moran, director of the Strauss Center's State Fragility Initiative, spoke at an event briefing NATO on civil society working group recommendations on expanding NATO’s work to address the security risks from climate and environmental stress. The April 21 event was organized by NATO’s Policy Planning Unit and Emerging Security Challenges Division. It included remarks by several...
Professor Joshua Busby, Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, recently co-authored a piece for the World Economic Forum titled “The US needs partners to tackle the security risks of climate change.” The article begins by presenting three main arguments: that climate change imposes increasingly hazardous risks to “stability and security”; that the Biden...