Archive News & Announcements - 2020

Toda policy briefs on Climate Change have reached new audiences as posts on the New Security Beat blog. The blog is part of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program. Links to the blog posts, which are condensed versions of the policy briefs written by Volker Boege, Ursula Rakova, Kate Higgins and Josiah Maesua, can be found below: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2019/10/avoid-conflict-responses-climate-change-oceania-heed-customary-actors-institutions/ https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/01/community-input-improves-climate-change-induced-resettlement-effort/ https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2019/11/climate-change-conflict-peacebuilding-solomon-island-communities/

Click here to read the article. Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva, says that while nations continue to grapple with major global issues as the new year dawns, such as disarmament and climate change, there is reason to hope that they will work together to resolve the biggest threats to humanity. Listen to an interview here. Read more... [Quotation] https://news.un.org/en/audio/2020/01/1054891

Click here to read the article. The once-sleepy Mahia peninsula is now the site of regular rocket launches but a plan to put US spy satellites into space is causing concern... Read more... [Quotation] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/aiming-for-the-stars-how-new-zealands-space-industry-is-causing-turbulence