2008 - Issue 10
 The general misconception that global temperatures can be kept within safe limits only through carbon emission reductions is simply wrong. Instead of trying to address the unprecedented problem of global warming by conventional means, a paradigm shift is required. Tackling climate change calls for a new energy deal that will disengage economic development and energy growth. But climate change is not just an environmental issue. It is also a human security issue.
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|  | Creating a Common Energy Policy
By Alexander D. Boshkov
The European Commission has been trying to put down on paper ideas for a common energy policy of the Union. The energy ministers of all member states have been discussing issues of a common energy policy. The large energy companies of Europe have been trying to provide their input into a common energy policy. When negotiating with Russia about future energy supplies, the European representatives have tried to formulate a common energy policy against the Russian ene...read more » |
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 | Tackling a grim reality
By Dora Bakoyannis
Climate change is a grim reality. Scientists tell us that the world is getting warmer by the day. Extreme weather phenomena such as floods, droughts, heat waves and cyclones, experienced in different parts of our globe, are among the far reaching consequences of climate change, giving us a bitter foretaste of what worse may come in the near future. The link between climate change and human security is now as clear as ever.
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 | Facilitating positive responses to Climate Change
by Theodore Skylakakis
Climate change is one of the greatest and most complex challenges the international community has to deal with today and in the years to come. Greece, and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs apart from its active participation in the climate change dialogue currently taking place in various international fora, is also taking concrete initiatives to facilitate policy responses of the international community to this challenge. The adoption of the issue of the ...read more » |
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 | Addressing the Impact on Human Security
By Thanos Dokos
For quite some time the medium - and long - term global implications of continuous environmental degradation have been a cause for concern for officials, experts and laymen alike. Environmental problems will increasingly affect economic, social and political developments throughout the world. The impact of climate change will be even more acute in vulnerable regions and groups that face multiple stresses at the same time - pre-existing conflict, poverty and unequal access ...read more » |
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 | The impact on Children
by Donna L.Goodman and Selim Iltus
This article examines the existing and potential impacts of climate change on the world’s children. It summarizes a full policy review paper, “Climate Change and Children: A human security challenge.” The full paper is a contribution to a major initiative by the Government of Greece as Chair of the Human Security Network and ELIAMEP. The aim is to directly address the concerns of vulnerability, risk and responsive/protective mechanisms...read more » |
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 | Environmentally Induced Migration
By Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University
Migration - whether permanent or temporary, whether national, regional or international - has always been a possible coping strategy for people facing environmental changes such as sudden disasters or cyclical climate conditions. Pre-history and history are marked by (episodic and localised) human movement from one climate zone to another, as people have sought out environments that would support both survival as ...read more » |
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 | Gender aspects of natural disasters
by Rebecca Pearl and Irene Dankelman
Climate Change is increasingly recognized as a major human security issue that poses serious global threats. Although climate change affects everyone regardless of race, caste, ethnicity, sex and level of income, its impacts are more heavily felt by poor nations, communities and people, and climate change magnifies existing inequalities. For the world's poor the impact will be most severe, disproportionately affecting their livelihoods and security. Wo...read more » |
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 | The Impact of Climate Change on Human Security
by Saleemul Huq and Catherine Pettengell
The UNDP Human Development Report, (1994) defined human security as 'safety from chronic threats such as hunger, disease, and repression as well as protection from sudden and harmful disruptions in the patterns of daily life - whether in homes, in jobs or in communities', and as the totality of economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security and political security. Human security has ...read more » |
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|  | A Night in Naples
By Gazmend Kapllani
I went to Naples to interview Roberto Saviano, the 29-year-old Italian writer who exposed the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra. His book, the “Gomorra”, has sold in Italy alone some 1.5 million copies. At this moment it is considered one of the most significant books in the world. And the wrath of the Camorra against Saviano is mainly due to the success his book is enjoying. We met rather “clandestinely”, at the barracks of the Italian Carabinieri ...read more » |
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