CCAPS program researchers will present climate aid, security, and conflict research at several side events at the UNFCCC COP 17 negotiations in Durban over the next week. CCAPS researchers will also unveil a prototype of the program’s new dynamic mapping tool, which explores the relationship between climate change vulnerability, conflict patterns, and international aid allocations.
Monitoring, Evaluating and Prioritizing Adaptation Options
Development and Climate Days
December 3, 2011
11:30AM – 1:00PM
CCAPS researchers will present CCAPS-AidData climate coding and geocoding work at IIED’s Development and Climate Days side event. Timmons Roberts and Ashley Moran will highlight new tools for visualizing and analyzing aid flows within the broader contexts of development and climate security. Other panelists will present aid tracking and evaluation initiatives from the International Institute for Environment and Development, World Resources Institute, andCARE. CCAPS’ lead researcher on climate aid, Catherine Weaver, outlined the program’s innovative research in this field in a recent research brief.
DOD Climate Science and Technology Initiatives
U.S. Center
December 5, 2011
3:00PM – 4:30PM
The U.S. Department of Defense will host a side event providing an overview of the Department’s science and technology initiatives that contribute to understanding climate challenges and developing solutions. CCAPS researcher Ashley Moran will discuss how CCAPS’ dynamic mapping tool is used to analyze climate security risks in Africa. The Department’s other initiatives will be presented by Sharon Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Operational Energy; Dorothy Robyn, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment; and RADM Dave Titley, U.S. Navy, Task Force Climate Change.
Climate Change Programming in Fragile States: Exploring Policy Options and Tools
Garden Court Marine Parade Hotel
December 6, 2011
12:30PM – 2:30PM
The CCAPS program and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) will host a panel discussion on the relationship between climate change and conflict, with a particular focus on such dynamics within fragile states. CCAPS and IISD will use case studies and mapping tools to identify hot spots in Africa and highlight the challenges and opportunities for programming in a fragile states context. The discussion will explore potential entry points and approaches to programming for a range of international actors from the defense, peacebuilding, and development communities.
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...