Olivia Lazard
Environmental Peacemaking Expert | Climate Conflict Resolution Pioneer
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In the world's most complex conflict zones, Olivia Lazard has discovered a profound truth: environmental challenges and peace are fundamentally interconnected. As a researcher and peacemaking practitioner, she bridges the critical intersection between climate action and conflict resolution.
Lazard's groundwork reveals how environmental pressures can escalate tensions, but also how sustainable solutions can create pathways to reconciliation. Her expertise offers event organizers and audiences a unique lens on global challenges, demonstrating how addressing climate change isn't just an ecological imperative, but a strategy for building more stable, resilient societies.
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The blind spots of the green energy transition
The world needs clean power, but decarbonization calls for a massive increase in the mining and extraction of minerals like lithium, graphite and cobalt. Environmental peacemaking expert Olivia Lazard sheds light on the scramble for these precious mineral resources -- and how the countries that control their supply chains (including China and Russia) could find themselves at the center of the new global stage. Learn why Lazard thinks planetary security depends on our ability to de-escalate resource competition and avoid the same mistakes that led to the climate crisis.
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