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Rebuilding for resilience: Climate-smart post-conflict recovery | BCSC 2025

12 November, 2025

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This session examined how climate-sensitive peacebuilding is essential for lasting stability, noting that without climate resilience, post-conflict gains can be undermined by extreme weather, resource strain, and renewed instability.

Participants discussed integrating climate risk assessments, nature-based solutions, and inclusive planning into reconstruction, identifying actionable pathways for community engagement, donor coordination, and sustainable financing.

The seventh edition of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) explored climate, conflict, and cooperation in a turbulent era. Better coordination and innovative collaborations are needed more than ever. Through taking stock of leading practice and convening figures from government, implementation organisations, and research, it advanced actionable climate security solutions amid growing instability.

Hosted by adelphi global

Speakers:

Ghulam Isaczai, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator, and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
Gabriela Manea, Senior Advisor, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)
Dr Assem Mayar, Climate Expert, Climate Security Expert Network (CSEN)
Moderated by Janani Vivekananda, Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi global

The production of this video is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.

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