⚙️ What does the rapid rise of AI mean for the climate transition? Listen to the new Climate Briefing podcast episode exploring the environmental impacts of AI infrastructure, from soaring energy demand to the strain placed on global water resources. 🎙️ climatebriefing.libsyn.com/what-does-ai...
💧 While energy security dominates headlines, the Gulf’s highly centralized water systems face severe strategic risks. Read Beatrice Mosello and Nazanine Moshiri’s piece on why the region must treat water as a core security priority. 🔗 www.newsecuritybeat.org/2026/06/trea...
Treat Water as an Essential Strategic Resource in the Middle East
De-risking energy is a key element of geopolitical focus in our moment. This is especially true now, as energy security, diversifying supply routes, protecting shipping lanes, and insulating [...]
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AI's rapid growth is driving an unprecedented demand for water to cool data centres, threatening local supplies. Read Leslie Morris-Iveson’s analysis on why governments must mandate transparency and protect shared watersheds from digital infrastructure strain. ⚙️ www.chathamhouse.org/2026/06/ai-w...
AI water usage requires governments to rethink their approach to water
From the local impact of data centres to risks in the global supply chain, water use for AI threatens to exacerbate existing stress on water resources.
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🧪 What if sustainability leadership felt like solving a 3D puzzle? Read our interview with Justin Perrettson on how biosolutions are transforming industries and why we need a new dialogue focused on resilience, risk and reward. 🔗 accelerator.chathamhouse.org/article/bios...
Biosolutions, 3D puzzles and sustainability immersion therapy by Justin Perrettson
Continuing our series of interviews with leaders in their respective fields of the climate and nature transition, this month we sat down with Justin Perrettson, Head of Partnerships and External Engag...
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🌡️ A 2026 super El Niño could raise global temperatures by a further 0.2°C. Read the new expert comment by Bhargabi Bharadwaj and Phesheya Nxumalo on why the UK must bridge funding gaps and make climate adaptation standards legally enforceable. 🔗 www.chathamhouse.org/2026/05/2026...
A 2026 ‘super El Niño’ could expose gaps in UK preparedness
An El Niño event could disrupt UK weather, laying bare the vulnerabilities flagged by the Climate Change Committee’s new report.
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⚖️Traditional predictive tools are no longer enough for business leaders. Read the article by Karina Litvack, Roberto Waack, Ashok Gupta and David Gunn on why corporate boards must upgrade scenario planning and lead with principle-based foundations. 🔗 accelerator.chathamhouse.org/article/the-...
The role of boards in the Age of Uncertainty by Karina Litvack, Roberto Waack, Ashok Gupta and David Gunn
Following on from our recent roundtables in Paris, non-executive directors from the Accelerator’s network reflect on this era of extraordinary uncertainty – and what to do about it.
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🌡️ As Western Europe swelters under a record-breaking May heat dome, emissions are making heatwaves longer and more frequent. Revisit our explainer on how extreme heat impacts infrastructure, inequality, and health, and see how cities must adapt. 🔗 www.chathamhouse.org/2024/08/heat...
Heatwaves, extreme heat and climate change
Explaining the link between heatwaves and climate change, the impacts of extreme heat, and what governments and cities are doing to adapt.
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⛽ The Persian Gulf Producers pt2 How did these nations become dominant fossil fuel exporters, and how are they handling the energy transition? Anna and Bhargabi are joined by Robin Mills and more to explore. 🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
🚰 Water is the forgotten input in global trade. Watch for the key takeaways from the new paper by Leslie Morris-Iveson on how geopolitical friction risks global water security. 📚 Read the full paper here: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/05/maki...
🚰 Global trade masks a water security crisis. In this new paper, Leslie Morris-Iveson & co-authors explain how virtual water in supply chains shifts stress onto vulnerable regions and threatens global resilience in a fractured geopolitical landscape. 🔗 Read: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/05/maki...
Making water use in global trade more sustainable | Summary
The challenge to improve supply-chain resilience and water security in the context of geopolitical change
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⛏️Rare earths are on Trump’s agenda in China, but US e-waste is an untapped source at home. ♻️The US depends on China for 90% of rare earth magnets, Patrick Schröder argues that recycling could meet 60% of 2030 demand. 🔗Read his analysis here: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/05/rare...
🌊Transformative adaptation and floating cities… Kamya Choudhary and Elizabeth Adetoye explore how floating projects in the Maldives and Bangladesh are reimagining land rights, food security, and transformative climate adaptation. 🔗 accelerator.chathamhouse.org/article/tran...
Transformative adaptation and floating cities by Kamya Choudhary and Elizabeth Adetoye
Kamya Choudhary and Elizabeth Adetoye explore floating cities - discussing where and how they're being used, and what they teach us about transformative approaches to adaptation
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🎮 Can games help us solve real-world problems? Sustainability Accelerator sits down with David Finnigan and Melanie Frances to discuss how simulations help leaders rehearse for climate shocks and navigate the Prisoner's Dilemma of global collaboration. accelerator.chathamhouse.org/article/pris...
Prisoners' dilemmas, games and building better futures by Melanie Frances and David Finnigan
Continuing our series of interviews with leaders in their respective fields of the climate and nature transition, this month we sat down with David Finnigan and Melanie Frances, who work with governme...
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♻️Anna Åberg and Elizabeth Adetoye discuss the transition to a global circular economy with Dr Patrick Schröder and Jocelyn Blériot. 🎧Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
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🎯 The Strait of Hormuz crisis proves Europe must end fossil fuel reliance. Zissis Marmarelis argues EU carbon pricing is the best tool to drive renewables and shield consumers. 🌍 📖 Read: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/04/stra...
The Strait of Hormuz energy crisis shows the EU’s carbon pricing is the right approach
The current crisis shows that Europe must transition to renewables to reduce its dependency on volatile fossil fuels. This week’s AccelerateEU plan rightly reaffirms that goal.
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⛽ Oil and gas producers in the Gulf: a deep dive How did these countries become such dominant fossil fuel exporters? Anna and Bhargabi are joined by Paul Stevens to delve into the history and political economy of the region in part one of this series. 🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Oil and gas producers in the Gulf: a deep dive (part 1 of 2)
Podcast Episode · The Climate Briefing · 21 April · 34min
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💧 Can water be a tool for peace? Last week, Beatrice Mosello joined the Berghof Foundation to discuss water governance in Yemen and Iraq. From turning scarcity into collaboration to using water as a practical entry point for dialogue. Watch: berghof-foundation.org/news/event-w...
Video: Water, conflict and governance in fragile contexts
Water is not only a technical issue. Our research in Yemen and Iraq shows how political and social dynamics can turn water into a driver of conflict or cooperat
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📖 What really happens behind the closed doors of UN climate talks? Ellie Macmillan-Fox reviews 'The Climate Diplomat,' exploring the evolving roles of the US and China. Peter Betts’s account argues climate is a scientific fact, not a political totem. 👇 Read: academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
The climate diplomat: a personal history of the COP conferences
During the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established, launching years of international c
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🌍 When food security meets carbon sinks: The new geopolitics of land. Richard King and Tim Benton explore why integrated land governance is now a prerequisite for global stability, moving beyond policies that pit food against fuel. 📖 Read: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
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🌎 Will global disruption derail Colombia’s energy transition? Patrick Schroeder examines how the Iran war is testing Colombia's historic fossil fuel phase-out, for Foreign Policy. Read: foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/17/c...
Will the Iran War Derail Colombia’s World-First Energy Transition?
An economy dependent on fossil fuels planned to wind down, rather than expand, extraction.
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🎯 Geopolitics isn't the only driver of Greenland's future. Patrick Schroeder warns that focusing on a mineral battle ignores the climate crisis. We must move beyond business as usual to protect the nature all progress depends on. 📖 Read: www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
Climate change is a greater threat to Greenland than Trump’s mineral ambitions
Islanders want to be in control of exploiting their zinc, copper and other resources in ways that benefit the community and protect its fragile environment, writes Patrick Schröder.
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🚝What does China’s new 5-Year Plan mean for the climate? Anna Aberg is joined by James and Lauri to discuss the global impact of China's latest policy shift. 📻Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Politics Podcast · Updated fortnightly · The Climate Briefing unpacks the biggest issues shaping international climate politics. Hosted by Anna Åberg and Bhargabi Bharadwaj of Chatham House, the podca...
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UPCOMING EVENT 💧Is water a driver of conflict or peace? Join Beatrice Mosello and experts on 24 March, 15:00 CET for a Berghof Foundation event on water governance in Yemen & Iraq, exploring how social dynamics shape environmental peacebuilding. Sign up here: berghof-foundation.org/news/event-w...
Water, conflict and governance in fragile contexts
Water is not only a technical issue. Our research in Yemen and Iraq shows how political and social dynamics can turn water into a driver of conflict or cooperat
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🎯 Middle East conflict isn't the only driver of high US energy prices. Zissis Marmarelis warns that skyrocketing data centre demand and the cancellation of cheap clean energy projects are locking in higher costs for years to come. 📖 Read more here: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/03/us-e...
US energy prices were set to rise long before the Iran war
Even if the disruption to oil and gas from the Iran war subsides, the Trump administration’s energy policy will likely lead to a long-term increase in energy prices.
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🎯 The race for rare earths shouldn't be a race to the bottom for the planet. Every tonne of rare earth mined produces 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste. Patrick Schröder warns that diversification must not come at the expense of fragile ecosystems. 📖 Read more: https://bit.ly/4aZGBc2
The rare earths race risks environmental disaster
Rare earth elements are essential for the green transition but the accelerating geopolitical race to reduce dependence on China carries great environmental risks.
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📻 Paris, Progress, and the Limits of Geoengineering How has the Paris Agreement changed the world? Laurence Tubiana joins Chris Aylett to discuss COP reform and why we must be cautious with geoengineering. 🎧 Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Future of Climate Diplomacy 4: Laurence Tubiana
Podcast Episode · The Climate Briefing · 3 March · 36m
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🌊The race to secure critical raw materials is turning attention towards an unlikely place: the ocean floor. For more listen to this weeks episode of The Climate Briefing: climatebriefing.libsyn.com/the-geopolit...
The Climate Briefing: The geopolitics of deep-sea mining
The race to secure critical raw materials is turning attention towards an unlikely place: the ocean floor. In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Isaac Kardon (Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment fo...
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🚗 The US rollback of the 2009 endangerment finding is described by experts as "strategic self-sabotage". By stalling on EV innovation, the US is arguably handing a massive technological and industrial advantage to China in the global clean energy race. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/02/trum...
Trump’s repeal of landmark climate ruling is a strategic own goal
The Trump administration’s reversal of the endangerment finding is a brutal assault on global efforts to confront climate change – and an act of economic and strategic self-sabotage.
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🛡️Climate is a "blind spot" at the 2026 Munich Security Conference. Dr. Beatrice Mosello argues that ignoring environmental stress makes security policy less effective. Stabilization requires restoring land & water systems. 🔗Read here for more: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/02/clim...
Climate security should be a bigger priority at the Munich Security Conference
Anxiety over a fragmenting international security order seems to have pushed progress on climate risks down the agenda. But recent events show its continuing importance.
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🌊Global Water Crisis: The UN warns of "global water bankruptcy." Leslie Morris-Iveson & Richard King argue the 2026 UN Water Conference must move beyond voluntary pledges to binding, coordinated action to save SDG 6. 📖 Read here for more: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/02/worl...
The world is far off meeting its growing water needs. Can the UN still lead the response?
The 2026 UN Water Conference can still have a big impact this year – if it can discuss water action as critical to human wellbeing and economic activity and focus on pragmatic solutions.
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