Benjamin Pohl

Foreign policy, climate crisis, Berlin & more
Now active where the sky is bluer & you should be, too!
💼 @Climatediplo
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[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

What does the #ClimateCrisis mean for 🇩🇪’s security & how should it feature in its upcoming security strategy? Short 🧵 to my article for @49security 👇, enlisting IR theory and Spaghetti Westerns to argue why our understanding of national security needs to broaden (1/8)

[49security @49security]

Global public goods – above all, a habitable planet – are preconditions for security, writes @TheRealBenPohl.

His take: For 🇩🇪's security strategy to succeed, it must confront the #ClimateCrisis.

What could a climate-sensitive security policy look like? https://t.co/mdOvArTeb1

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

In case you were wondering: quick synthesis 👇 on what happened in #German politics during the past 25 hours

[ImmerMüde @fraeuleinoy]

@dw_politics A small correction

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

The real #Doppelwumms

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

Shouldn't she rather be trying to cross a canyon in #Arizona, @NewYorker?

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

New Yorker cover this week.

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

"voters claiming to be hard-headed are overlooking the tail risk of a #Trump presidency. By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace." 👇

https://t.co/AdQJy2BWFb

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

Interesting synthesis on the development of UN(SC)-#AU Cooperation by @SCRtweets 👇
https://t.co/VYhLWU0r1E

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

Some good news 👇
"the EU achieved a net 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 compared to the previous year ... Emissions are now 37% below 1990 levels. The EU’s GDP has grown by 68% over the same period."
https://t.co/6NwlvojdDb

[Climate Diplomacy and Security @ClimateDiplo]

🔎Insights from #BCSCCali 🇨🇴:
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), environmental and biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation & building resilience are intertwined and directly connected with peacebuilding. 🧵

#COP16 #COP16Colombia

[Climate Diplomacy and Security @ClimateDiplo]

🗓️Join us in Cali, Colombia, at #COP16!
We are co-hosting a side event w/ @EnvPeacebuild to explore the potential for coordinated policies on biodiversity & inclusive conservation that foster peacebuilding & social cohesion.

🌱Register: https://t.co/r6s6hVCLfX
#PeaceWithNature

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

"Like a deer caught in a lorry’s headlights, European leaders are left hoping the MAGA juggernaut coming their way swerves, lest they become geopolitical roadkill." 👇

Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill https://t.co/mLOiwII8FH

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

"Most Americans are not insured against such hammer blows. ... That is why, though the damage done by Helene has been estimated at $250bn, insurers are on the hook for less than 6% of that amount."
#HurricaneMilton: Paradise lashed https://t.co/RdOgEsxpYj

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

"a candidate who lost the last election, whose party was trounced in the 2018 midterms—a candidate who has never won the popular vote and probably never will—has remade American policy in his image" 👇

The Trumpification of American policy https://t.co/hArMjZRbnd

[Janani Vivekananda @JanVivekananda]

Always so inspired hearing incredible work being lead by our #WeatheringRisk Peace Pillar partners. Such great progress achieved in phase 2! So much to build off for phase 3 💪🕊️
@BerghofFnd @Eurpeace @hdcentre

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

One more highlight at the end of #BCSC2024 - @MAWareSO of @IGADsecretariat, @shektej of @AUC_PAPS & Janet Kabeberi-Macharia of the Kenyan Foreign Ministry highlighting Africa's role in furthering the Climate, Peace and Security agenda at a roundtable hosted by @irlembberlin

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

"If parents cannot feed their children, nothing else matters." @ErinSikorsky's favorite line from the US National Security Strategy gets strong traction at the "Feeding resilience" session @ #BCSC2024

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

She also puts paid to some of the key arguments frequently cited against having the #UNSC discuss Climate, Peace and Security - very much worth listening in to!

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett of @PMUN_GUY explains the interconnections between climate, food insecurity and conflict on which #Guyana organized an open debate at the #UNSC earlier this year. #BCSC2024

See also https://t.co/5hkVBSO1sX

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

Ambassador @eiskandarov explains #COP29 priorities for the Climate, Peace and Security nexus, including a Peace day at COP29 and an initiative to highlight and connect practical solutions,, the Baku Call for Climate Action for Peace #BCSC2024

[Climate Diplomacy and Security @ClimateDiplo]

COMING UP NEXT AT #BCSC2024:

🟢 From COP28 Declaration to COP29: Bridging a Climate for Peace to Baku

Session info: https://t.co/AyEDOvToPg

📷 WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/6UQq6MvPuz
@eiskandarov @COP29_AZ @GafgazAdigozal @GermanyDiplo @AzerbaijanMFA

[Hector Morales M. @hecworld]

“The climate crisis is not only a threat multiplier but an inequality multiplier” David Miliband CEO at the ⁦@RESCUEorg⁩ at the #BCSC2024 ⁦@ClimateDiplo⁩

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

Starting right now 👇

[Climate Diplomacy and Security @ClimateDiplo]

📢STARTING SOON AT #BCSC2024:

Climate security in humanitarian, peacekeeping and stabilisation responses - Session info: https://t.co/XgMK0h7g0T

@unmissmedia @DMiliband @RESCUEorg

📹 WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/6UQq6MvPuz

[Benjamin Pohl @TheRealBenPohl]

The @AUC_PAPS's @shektej stresses the critical role leadership has played in the process of formulating a Common African Position on climate, peace and security #BCSC2024