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On this episode, environmental peacemaker and mediator Olivia Lazard joins Nate to unpack the relationship between mineral deposits, conflict-vulnerable zones, and high biodiversity areas to create interlocking risks to geopolitical and climate stability.
The relationship between mineral deposits, conflict vulnerable zones, and high biodiversity areas creates interconnected risks to geopolitical and climate stability.
Sophia Besch sits down with Stewart to unpack the recent announcement of Germany supplying Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and the future of European defense strategy.
It makes it easier for Bulgaria to find commercial partners and disentangles the longstanding relationship with Russia.
Most of the energy resources from Central Asian countries come to European markets through the territory of Russia but at the same time European countries want to make sure that Central Asian countries' economies are not damaged by all the sanctions.
Countries responsible for higher gas emissions are stuck in an economic model that does not allow for peaceful and constructive climate conversations. To deliver on the climate transition and to avoid further conflict, decarbonization should not be used as a tool to redesign the global balance of power.
While China has charged ahead in developing a global strategy for the energy transition, which utilizes both its foreign and security policies, the EU is trying to compete through next-generation technology.
Zainab Usman speaks with Sheila Khama about the recent oil price surge and what that says about the medium-term future prospect despite the drive to decarbonization world economies of through reduction of fossil fuels.
This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Olivia Lazard, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe focusing on the geopolitics of climate and the transitions ushered by climate change.
Thus far, climate change has exacerbated pre-existing social, socio-economic, and political fractures. In the future, systemic, profound disruptions - including that of conflict between states - is possible.