The nature of conflict and peace: The links between environment, security and peace and their importance for the United Nations
The report seeks to complement the climate-security nexus by addressing environmental risks to security that are not (primarily) related to climate change. Hence, the nature-security nexus puts biodiversity and ecosystems rather than climate change at its centre. This perspective allows for assessing the whole breadth of interactions between environment, peace and security.
The nature-security nexus: key pathways
Four main pathways form the nature-security nexus. These pathways spell out the different ways in which environmental degradation and biodiversity loss interact with conflict, insecurity and peace:
- Ecosystem and biodiversity loss, livelihood insecurity and political instability
- The environment, conflict financing and organised crime
- Competition and conflicts around natural resources
- The impacts of war and conflict on the environment
The scale of the environmental crisis and its critical importance in driving insecurity make it imperative that the UN system recognises and acts more comprehensively on this overarching challenge. The report lays out recommendations that outline critical starting points and possible next steps for UN organs, programmes, funds, specialised agencies and bodies to work towards a comprehensive environmental security agenda.
Download the report:
WWF at the Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2022
By loading the videos you accept the YouTube privacy policy.
By loading the videos you accept the YouTube privacy policy.
WATCH THE LAUNCH EVENT (May 2022):
By loading the videos you accept the YouTube privacy policy.
