Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity

  Igarapé Institute co-founder and president Ilona Szabó has been named to the newly created High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins 11 other publicly acclaimed figures including former heads of state, sitting government authorities and eminent scholars who will be tasked…

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.

Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.

With the devastating effects of climate change already bearing down on the world’s urban areas, ambitious decarbonization and adaptation promises from municipal leaders could not come soon enough

  The organization releases a new video to mark its anniversary  Launched ten years ago, the Igarapé Institute is more prolific and impactful than ever. On its tenth anniversary the Institute is expanding its engagement with climate security and digital security alongside public security. The…

Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change

  A series of randomized control trials in six countries evaluate whether community policing improves security A vexing question facing all countries is how they can best reduce crime and improve public security? A common response is to deploy police, including sending officers to work…

After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream

More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South