Within the multilateral system, there is increasing interest in exploring how climate change risks interact with other factors – including livelihoods, gender inequality and women’s rights, conflict, migration and displacement, social exclusion, and wider security issues. In particular, policymakers and practitioners have intensified efforts to improve cross-cutting analytic and foresight capabilities, along with more climate-sensitive programming. This policy paper proposes five steps donors and governments should take to deliver on the climate-security agenda.
