Water and climate action in conflict settings | PhD Candidate @UTwente | Technical Adviser @RCClimate 💧🕊
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Juliane Schillinger retweeted
As @Needs_conf gets underway, @LauraERPeters @rodmenaf, @schillju & I get ready to disentangle #disasters in conflict settings. How? By
* taking a critical lens to the 'fragile' state
* unearthing disaster-conflict causal mechanisms
* learning from operational experience
With increasing global warming, losses and damages related to #climate change become more likely, while the window for effective adaptation is closing.
Joining the marathon reading of #IPCCreport at @UTwente today, organized by @sciforfuture_NL: utoday.nl/news/72713/concern…
#EEF2023 panel on environment in protracted conflict with @UNEP @PAXforpeace @IISD_news @ELIORG. We have gotten better at documenting environmental impacts over the past decade. The next challenge: understanding how these env. damages exacerbate vulnerabilities to #climate crisis
Juliane Schillinger retweeted
Local communities are key players in water action.
Today we launched a new initiative together with the @RodeKruis @UNDRR, and @WMO : ‘’Water at the Heart of Climate Action’’ will work to minimize water related disasters. Read more here: bit.ly/40i8kh4
Happy #WorldWaterDay from the Environment and Emergencies Forum #EEF2023!
We can't address conflicts, peacebuilding, development, disaster preparedness without the environment (incl #water), which is central to the resilience of communities. @EnvironmentOcha
At #europeanhumanitarianforum #EHF2023 this week for @RCClimate. Good to see lots of attention to how #climate exacerbates humanitarian needs around the world - humanitarian action needs to reach those most in need and most vulnerable to climate change.
Some highlights so far 🧵
.@UNReliefChief: Humanitarian action needs to address compound crises of conflict, climate, economic decline, environmental degradation. Humanitarian actors cannot do this alone, we need to work with those outside of the humanitarian sector and listen to local communities.
.@ICRCPresident: Human life and dignity need to be protected throughout humanitarian crises.
Also highlighted the @ICRC progress on integrating #climate into their humanitarian operations, which is done in collaboration with @RCClimate.
Juliane Schillinger retweeted
.@RCClimate’s @schillju at #EHF2023 on expanding anticipatory action: “Conflict-affected communities are among the most vulnerable to climate-related disasters & responding in those settings is difficult. With #AnticipatoryAction, we can mitigate many of these disasters.”
Juliane Schillinger retweeted
This year's round table on #climate & #security in The Hague y, hosted by @MercyCorps_NL in partnership with @FanackMENA, hears that 'the more fragile a country is, the less climate finance, including for #adaptation & #resilience, it gets' - bit.ly/41Z3Mh8
Juliane Schillinger retweeted
We are delighted to contribute to these dialogues, with @mercycorps, building on the leadership in this topic by our partners @ifrc and @ICRC . Check out these two key resources in case you have not seeing them yet 💫 lnkd.in/epTztCV3 and lnkd.in/ep3Mf9wP
Excellent webinar by @TheWilsonCenter & @USWP yesterday, with first-hand updates on the situation of #water utilities in #Ukraine from Lviv. Infrastructure damage is a major challenge, but it is by far not the only one.
Recording available here: bit.ly/3Y4uJh8
LIVE NOW | Russia’s war in #Ukraine has devastated the country’s water and sanitation infrastructure. Join @TheWilsonCenter and @USWP for a discussion on better understanding the enormous costs of #Russia’s attacks on civilian infrastructure.
bit.ly/3Y4uJh8
Many impacts on utilities in Ukraine match what we found in the Middle East:
🏚️Destruction
⚡️Breakdown of electricity
🧰Limited access to materials
💰Loss of financial self-sufficiency
👩🔧Lack of staff
🌿Pollution from untreated sewage
Learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2… 🔓
Climate change doesn't stop when it's below zero outside, and neither do we! 💪
#Climate march at @UTwente, organized by #Students4Future Enschede, calling for #ClimateJustice & demanding that the university cuts ties with the fossil fuel industry (most notably #Shell)
In true Dutch Sinterklaas Surprise fashion: @devi_lockwood's "1001 Voices of Climate Change" - alone each story might just be a drop in the bucket, but together they're a call for action and a wave of change 🌊
We had a great session on #climate and #youth-led environmental peacebuilding at the #RCClimateYouth Summit today, featuring inspiring work by @EYPW_PEJE in the Kura-Araks river basin, @SOGPA2 in Somalia and @Gens_For_Peace in Jordan 🌍🕊️
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Juliane Schillinger retweeted
Today I launched @ICRC's appeal:
The suffering caused by conflicts, the climate emergency and rising food and energy prices, will make 2023 a year of vast humanitarian need.
The global community must ensure that no one is left behind.
icrc.org/en/document/humanit…
