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Oli Brown

CSEN Expert

Oli Brown is Associate Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources department at Chatham House, and a member of the Climate Security Expert Network. Between 2014 and 2018, Oli Brown was based in Kenya, where he coordinated UN Environment’s work to minimise the risks and impacts of disasters, industrial accidents and armed conflicts. Between 2010 and 2012, he managed a UN Environment programme in Sierra Leone, before which he was a senior researcher and programme manager with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

CSEN Climate-Fragility Risk Briefs: Afghanistan, North Africa and Sahel (available in French) and The Sahel

POLICY PAPER Europe and Climate Security - Is Europe Delivering on its Rhetoric?

PODCASTS Hot days ahead: How climate impacts are pushing Afghanistan’s multiple burdens to the brink and The UNSC's role in addressing climate related security risks

Articles

Global Issues
Security

Climate-security and peacebuilding: Thematic review

This thematic review analysed 74 projects supported by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund that responded to climate-security issues or...

The_Future_of_Environmental_Peacebuilding_COVER

The future of environmental peacebuilding: Nurturing an ecosystem for peace

The White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding aims to deliver a strong, cogent message about the relevance, evidence, and promise of...

Sub-Saharan Africa
Early Warning and Risk Analysis

Anticipating trends in the Sahel: Summary for policy makers

The objective of this report is to support the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) in promoting data-driven and evidence-based approaches in the Sahel...

Sub-Saharan Africa
Fragility

Climate-Fragility Risk Factsheet: The Sahel

The Sahel has been identified as one of the regions where climate change is most likely to undermine security and trigger violent conflict. This is a function...

Global Issues
Conflict Mitigation and Peacebuilding

Making peace with the climate

This paper is the result of a series of structured interviews with more than a dozen senior envoys, peace process facilitators and conflict resolution experts...

Europe
Fragility

CSEN Policy Paper: Europe and climate security - is Europe delivering on its rhetoric?

Over the past 15 years, climate-related risks to peace and stability have risen fast up the European agenda. This report explores the extent to which this...

Middle East and North Africa
Fragility

Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: North Africa and Sahel

Africa in general, and the Sahel in particular, is often identified as the region where climate change is most likely to undermine security and trigger violent...

Asia
Fragility

Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: Afghanistan

For the past four decades, Afghanistan has suffered from the devastating impacts of constant armed conflict. Conflicts have increased Afghanistan’s already high...

Sub-Saharan Africa
Fragility

Shoring up Stability in Niger

The new study Shoring up Stability demonstrates, for the first time, how climate change interacts with conflict and exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in the...

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