Taking a risk-centred approach, the session explored questions of unilateral action, geopolitical tensions, transboundary impacts, contested attribution and global justice, including perspectives from Africa and the wider Global South.

The eighth edition of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) explored a climate for security, freedom and prosperity. As the world confronts growing instability, the need for integrated, cross-sectoral responses has never been more urgent. Through taking stock of leading practice and convening figures from government, implementation organisations, and research, it helped to reframe and rethink how hard security, human security, and climate action can be pursued together, reenforcing each other rather than in competition.

Speakers:

• H.E. Amb. Jabril Abdulle, Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Somalia in Kenya
• Prof Aarti Gupta, Professor of Global Environmental Governance Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research
• Dr Danielle Young, Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Leeds
• Uta Klönne, Senior Science Advisor Climate Science and Impacts, Climate Analytics
• Hibaa Haibado Ismael Houssein, Third counselor- DPR UNEP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Djibouti
• Moderated by Dr Kira Vinke, Co-Director & Head of the Center for Climate and Foreign Policy, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

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

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