Sinéad Barry
@sineadbarry.bsky.social
Climate, peace, and security | Reintegration and post-conflict transitions | Sporadic journalist
Opinions my own (at best).
Opinions my own (at best).
Happy to share our latest report on #Climate, Peace and Environmental #Resilience in the Asia-Pacific region!
Check it out for insights on:
🌐 Streamlining regional expertise into international institutions
🚗 Supporting safe, dignified mobility
♻️ Advancing a just transition framework
➕ and more!
Check it out for insights on:
🌐 Streamlining regional expertise into international institutions
🚗 Supporting safe, dignified mobility
♻️ Advancing a just transition framework
➕ and more!
🌏Despite rising threats & rich regional expertise, a stark data gap remains on climate-related risks to peace, #stability and development in the #Asia-Pacific region.
Our report Climate, Peace & Environmental #Resilience in the Asia-Pacific Region aims to help fill the gap.
🔎adelph.it/AsiaPacific
Our report Climate, Peace & Environmental #Resilience in the Asia-Pacific Region aims to help fill the gap.
🔎adelph.it/AsiaPacific
June 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Happy to share our latest report on #Climate, Peace and Environmental #Resilience in the Asia-Pacific region!
Check it out for insights on:
🌐 Streamlining regional expertise into international institutions
🚗 Supporting safe, dignified mobility
♻️ Advancing a just transition framework
➕ and more!
Check it out for insights on:
🌐 Streamlining regional expertise into international institutions
🚗 Supporting safe, dignified mobility
♻️ Advancing a just transition framework
➕ and more!
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currently making me laugh: all the people from way outside of NYC being like "why the hell do I care so much about the mayoral race" A THREAD 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
currently making me laugh: all the people from way outside of NYC being like "why the hell do I care so much about the mayoral race" A THREAD 🧵
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🆕The latest episode of the podcast dives into the complex relationship between conflict, climate change and the environment in Yemen and what recent cuts in foreign aid mean for projects and programming w/ @omeisy.bsky.social (@eurpeace.bsky.social) & @sineadbarry.bsky.social
🎙️ adelph.it/podcast47
🎙️ adelph.it/podcast47
March 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🆕The latest episode of the podcast dives into the complex relationship between conflict, climate change and the environment in Yemen and what recent cuts in foreign aid mean for projects and programming w/ @omeisy.bsky.social (@eurpeace.bsky.social) & @sineadbarry.bsky.social
🎙️ adelph.it/podcast47
🎙️ adelph.it/podcast47
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Wir trauern um unseren Autor und Freund, Wolfgang Sporrer. Sein Leben und Wirken waren geleitet von der Maxime, dass Frieden die Grundlage ist, auf der eine bessere Welt erst möglich wird.
jacobin.de/autoren/wolf...
jacobin.de/autoren/wolf...
February 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wir trauern um unseren Autor und Freund, Wolfgang Sporrer. Sein Leben und Wirken waren geleitet von der Maxime, dass Frieden die Grundlage ist, auf der eine bessere Welt erst möglich wird.
jacobin.de/autoren/wolf...
jacobin.de/autoren/wolf...
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"The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems"
February 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems"
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🌹There is no love. There are only proofs of love.
Time for the 46 European governments to move beyond good intentions & take a firm position on Feb. 25th in favour of a legally binding instrument to protect the right to a healthy environment under the 🇪🇺 European Convention on Human Rights
Time for the 46 European governments to move beyond good intentions & take a firm position on Feb. 25th in favour of a legally binding instrument to protect the right to a healthy environment under the 🇪🇺 European Convention on Human Rights
February 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🌹There is no love. There are only proofs of love.
Time for the 46 European governments to move beyond good intentions & take a firm position on Feb. 25th in favour of a legally binding instrument to protect the right to a healthy environment under the 🇪🇺 European Convention on Human Rights
Time for the 46 European governments to move beyond good intentions & take a firm position on Feb. 25th in favour of a legally binding instrument to protect the right to a healthy environment under the 🇪🇺 European Convention on Human Rights
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Don't forget to register for our speed briefing on a new legal toolkit to protect people displaced in the context of climate change. The Australian one is tomorrow - Fri 14 Feb 12.30-1pm. Full details here www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/02...
New global toolkit to guide refugee claims involving climate change and disasters
Climate impacts are arising in protection claims worldwide. A ground-breaking new global toolkit shows how decision-makers across the globe are grappling with such claims, offering practical legal gui...
www.unsw.edu.au
February 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Don't forget to register for our speed briefing on a new legal toolkit to protect people displaced in the context of climate change. The Australian one is tomorrow - Fri 14 Feb 12.30-1pm. Full details here www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/02...
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There has been little to no rainfall in northern #Syria, the country's bread basket, and we're getting alarming footage from our partners showing barren land, which should be green by now. What will this bring for the future?
See our 2022 report on these fears reliefweb.int/report/syria...
See our 2022 report on these fears reliefweb.int/report/syria...
February 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
There has been little to no rainfall in northern #Syria, the country's bread basket, and we're getting alarming footage from our partners showing barren land, which should be green by now. What will this bring for the future?
See our 2022 report on these fears reliefweb.int/report/syria...
See our 2022 report on these fears reliefweb.int/report/syria...
"President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their families."
Let's not forget, almost 2 in 3 #AlHol detainees are children, most of whom are too young to remember IS-rule, let alone be fighters.
Let's not forget, almost 2 in 3 #AlHol detainees are children, most of whom are too young to remember IS-rule, let alone be fighters.
U.S. Waives Aid Funding Freeze at Syrian Camp Holding ISIS Fighters (Gift Article)
Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the police there got a temporary waiver allowing it to continue operating.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their families."
Let's not forget, almost 2 in 3 #AlHol detainees are children, most of whom are too young to remember IS-rule, let alone be fighters.
Let's not forget, almost 2 in 3 #AlHol detainees are children, most of whom are too young to remember IS-rule, let alone be fighters.
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More on FEWSnet shutdown from Devex:
USAID-funded famine early warning system goes offline due to aid freeze
A key food insecurity data tool used by humanitarian groups worldwide has been taken down due to the Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID, raising alarm among aid workers.
www.devex.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
More on FEWSnet shutdown from Devex:
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“This is not about taking action against a person’s voice. This is the commission saying that everyone’s voice should be equal.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“This is not about taking action against a person’s voice. This is the commission saying that everyone’s voice should be equal.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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More than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv
January 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
More than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv
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"a perverse incentive drove our system. To win promotions and bigger salaries, military and civilian leaders felt they had to sell their tours of duty, deployments, programs and projects as successes — even when they were not" #Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
January 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"a perverse incentive drove our system. To win promotions and bigger salaries, military and civilian leaders felt they had to sell their tours of duty, deployments, programs and projects as successes — even when they were not" #Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
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With recent news that 40% of Earth's land habitats are now categorised as drylands, the capacity of solar farms to prevent desertification seems doubly significant.
Very interesting piece by Xiaoying You in Carbon Brief about the additional benefit from solar in China's desert areas: pushing back the desert. Physical barriers against sand movement, reducing wind-borne sand, more moisture retention, and more.
Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’ - Carbon Brief
China’s effort to build large solar power “bases” in and around the desert is a major part of its current renewable plan.
www.carbonbrief.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:27 PM
With recent news that 40% of Earth's land habitats are now categorised as drylands, the capacity of solar farms to prevent desertification seems doubly significant.
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A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.
December 9, 2024 at 10:27 AM
A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.
Undercurrents shows how civil war, environmental degradation and mismanagement have reduced #water and #land resources in Yemen, driving further #conflict.
In this assessment, we at @climatediplo.bsky.social outline why climate and environmental action must be part of #Yemen's peace efforts.
In this assessment, we at @climatediplo.bsky.social outline why climate and environmental action must be part of #Yemen's peace efforts.
Civil war, #climatechange and environmental degradation are reducing vital #naturalresources across 🇾🇪 #Yemen, driving #displacement and conflict at the local level.
Our new assessment shows how this is playing out, spotlighting issues around water and land.
🔎Read it: adelph.it/Undercurrents
Our new assessment shows how this is playing out, spotlighting issues around water and land.
🔎Read it: adelph.it/Undercurrents
December 6, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Undercurrents shows how civil war, environmental degradation and mismanagement have reduced #water and #land resources in Yemen, driving further #conflict.
In this assessment, we at @climatediplo.bsky.social outline why climate and environmental action must be part of #Yemen's peace efforts.
In this assessment, we at @climatediplo.bsky.social outline why climate and environmental action must be part of #Yemen's peace efforts.
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A STACK of interesting OA papers in this special issue on the relationships between armed conflicts and forests; Andes, Bangladesh, #Syria, #Afghanistan, #frankinsense and more www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Trees, Forests and People | Legacy of Warfare on the World's Forests | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Through human history, conflict has been a continued and devastating force to ecosystems. Historically, these impacts have included mass deforestation to garner resources to support the military compl...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:40 PM
A STACK of interesting OA papers in this special issue on the relationships between armed conflicts and forests; Andes, Bangladesh, #Syria, #Afghanistan, #frankinsense and more www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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📬 On our latest newsletter:
🎙️Climate finance & peace at #COP29
📺UNCCD's #COP16Riyadh: How ecosystem restoration can foster peace
🔎Regional study on cooperation between #Azerbaijan and #Georgia
✍Keeping #ClimateSecurity human-centric
Read: adelph.it/10thIssue2024
Subscribe: adelph.it/ECCnewsletter
🎙️Climate finance & peace at #COP29
📺UNCCD's #COP16Riyadh: How ecosystem restoration can foster peace
🔎Regional study on cooperation between #Azerbaijan and #Georgia
✍Keeping #ClimateSecurity human-centric
Read: adelph.it/10thIssue2024
Subscribe: adelph.it/ECCnewsletter
December 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM
📬 On our latest newsletter:
🎙️Climate finance & peace at #COP29
📺UNCCD's #COP16Riyadh: How ecosystem restoration can foster peace
🔎Regional study on cooperation between #Azerbaijan and #Georgia
✍Keeping #ClimateSecurity human-centric
Read: adelph.it/10thIssue2024
Subscribe: adelph.it/ECCnewsletter
🎙️Climate finance & peace at #COP29
📺UNCCD's #COP16Riyadh: How ecosystem restoration can foster peace
🔎Regional study on cooperation between #Azerbaijan and #Georgia
✍Keeping #ClimateSecurity human-centric
Read: adelph.it/10thIssue2024
Subscribe: adelph.it/ECCnewsletter
#Syria's conflict was never frozen...
Particularly for the tens of thousands detained or trying to re-establish their lives post-IS.
Some resources from us and others on what Syrians in the Northeast have been facing in the last years ⬇️
shorturl.at/XeFt1
shorturl.at/SXBI0
shorturl.at/ILuYG
Particularly for the tens of thousands detained or trying to re-establish their lives post-IS.
Some resources from us and others on what Syrians in the Northeast have been facing in the last years ⬇️
shorturl.at/XeFt1
shorturl.at/SXBI0
shorturl.at/ILuYG
Russia and Iran-backed militias are moving to prop up Bashar al-Assad, as opposition forces advance. But a political solution remains the only way to end the cycle of violence.
Syria’s conflict was never going to stay frozen. A new push for a lasting peace is needed
Russia and Iran-backed militias are moving to prop up Bashar al-Assad, as opposition forces advance. But a political solution remains the only way to end the cycle of violence.
www.chathamhouse.org
December 4, 2024 at 12:43 PM
#Syria's conflict was never frozen...
Particularly for the tens of thousands detained or trying to re-establish their lives post-IS.
Some resources from us and others on what Syrians in the Northeast have been facing in the last years ⬇️
shorturl.at/XeFt1
shorturl.at/SXBI0
shorturl.at/ILuYG
Particularly for the tens of thousands detained or trying to re-establish their lives post-IS.
Some resources from us and others on what Syrians in the Northeast have been facing in the last years ⬇️
shorturl.at/XeFt1
shorturl.at/SXBI0
shorturl.at/ILuYG
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📌 #AOLetsGo: Ongoing today: #ClimateJustice hearings at⚖️🇺🇳 International Court of Justice - a historical moment
🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️
🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage.
A 🧵👇
🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️
🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage.
A 🧵👇
December 2, 2024 at 10:56 AM
📌 #AOLetsGo: Ongoing today: #ClimateJustice hearings at⚖️🇺🇳 International Court of Justice - a historical moment
🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️
🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage.
A 🧵👇
🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️
🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage.
A 🧵👇
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"Cette décision ... marque un tournant historique. ... En effet, après 66 ans de la proclamation de la république du #Tchad, il est temps pour le Tchad d'affirmer sa souveraineté pleine et entière" 👇
November 29, 2024 at 1:07 PM
"Cette décision ... marque un tournant historique. ... En effet, après 66 ans de la proclamation de la république du #Tchad, il est temps pour le Tchad d'affirmer sa souveraineté pleine et entière" 👇
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I wrote about the elephant in the room at COP: National debt. Developing countries are drowning in debts owed to states, private bondholders, and banks. Disasters provoke more debt. New climate finance often comes as debt, too. It's a dangerous spiral. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Climate Diplomacy’s $300 Billion Failure
Climate negotiations at COP29 ended in a deal that mostly showed how far the world is from facing climate change’s real dangers.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:17 PM
I wrote about the elephant in the room at COP: National debt. Developing countries are drowning in debts owed to states, private bondholders, and banks. Disasters provoke more debt. New climate finance often comes as debt, too. It's a dangerous spiral. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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🌍 Somalia’s $100M climate fund success is a breakthrough, but conflict-hit nations need $35B annually to adapt.
Can climate finance overcome fear to invest where risk is highest?
Can climate finance overcome fear to invest where risk is highest?
Can climate funders overcome fear to tread in conflict zones?
At COP29, fragile climate-vulnerable countries launched a network aimed at securing the climate finance they say has been slow to come as their needs surge Conflict-hit countries launch a network…
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November 25, 2024 at 9:13 AM
🌍 Somalia’s $100M climate fund success is a breakthrough, but conflict-hit nations need $35B annually to adapt.
Can climate finance overcome fear to invest where risk is highest?
Can climate finance overcome fear to invest where risk is highest?
Military operations are contributing to emissions and environmental degradation, reducing capacities to adapt to climate change, and rearranging international CS priorities.
Our op-ed argues that as #climatesecurity expands, human security and peace must remain central ⬇
Our op-ed argues that as #climatesecurity expands, human security and peace must remain central ⬇
#COP29 takes place amidst an uptake in hard security interventions, increase in military activities & defence institutions embedding #climatesecurity firmly into their mandates. Considering the real impacts of climate change and security operations on people is vital.
🔗 adelph.it/OpedCOP29
🔗 adelph.it/OpedCOP29
November 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Military operations are contributing to emissions and environmental degradation, reducing capacities to adapt to climate change, and rearranging international CS priorities.
Our op-ed argues that as #climatesecurity expands, human security and peace must remain central ⬇
Our op-ed argues that as #climatesecurity expands, human security and peace must remain central ⬇