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Alina Viehoff

Alina Viehoff is a Consultant at the Climate Diplomacy and Security Programme at adelphi. Her work focuses on finding and implementing solutions to the complex challenges related to climate change, peace and security. In doing so, she supports multilateral cooperation and action while promoting local approaches and actors. She is particularly interested in exploring how climate action can become an entry point for cooperation and peacebuilding.

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Publications

Regional consultation on climate change and security in Central Asia COVER

Regional consultation on climate change and security in Central Asia

Regional consultation on climate change and security in Central Asia COVER

Climate change can impact security in a number of ways in Central Asia. As these risks are shared across the region, they also provide entry points for co-operation. This report presents the results of a regional consultation process on climate change and security in Central Asia, primarily based on a workshop held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

A Climate for Change in the UN Security Council?

This report investigates to what extent the 15 current member states of the United Nations Security Council perceive climate change as a threat to their own security and security worldwide and to what extent they integrate the climate change-security nexus into their domestic and foreign policies and their respective positions in the UN.

The Weathering Risk Peace Pillar

Alina Viehoff manages and coordinates the activities of the Weathering Risk Peace Pillar. The consortium translates climate security foresight and analysis into peacebuilding action where it is needed most. Partners work across the globe to engage local actors and ensure projects are context specific, informed by a bottom-up approach and locally owned.

Articles about Weathering Risk

Voices from Yemen – How environmental dialogues can contribute to resilience and peace

Amid mounting climate- and environmental- risks in Yemen, the European Institute of Peace (EIP) is streamlining climate considerations into local and national peacebuilding efforts through inclusive consultations and dialogues.

Events

Opening session of the BCSC 2022. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks in the panel "Climate–Conflict–Clash of Crises: Weathering the Risks" with Khadiija Maxamed Al Makhzoumin (Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Somalia), Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri (Minister of Climate Change & Environment in the UAE), and Johanna Sumuvuori (State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland)

Podcast appearances