Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed as highly vulnerable to climate change while at the same time possessing skills and knowledge that are critical to the...
Following COP28, Jakob Gomolka, Tendai Kasinganeti and Héctor Morales Muñoz summarize the findings of their African Climate Security Risk Assessment (ACRA)...
Attending the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai on Friday (1 December 2023), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined that...
Human rights advocates want the International Criminal Court to begin gathering evidence on the way climate-amplified extreme weather, heat, drought and...
Recent years have seen a growing body of evidence regarding the adverse impact of climate change on peace and security, notably through diminishing livelihoods...
In 2021, US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III referred to climate change as an “existential threat”—a term traditionally reserved for nuclear weapons. Yet...
During the NATO summit in Vilnius on the 11th and 12th July, NATO Leaders discussed critical challenges in enhancing NATO’s deterrence and defence and fostering...
The culmination of the IPCC Sixth Assessment cycle, the recently published synthesis report makes clear the contribution of climate change to global security.
The Summit in Madrid in June this year was NATO’s most important Summit since 9/11. In addition to the release of the new Strategic Concept, a radical change in...
With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and...
If we are to halt global warming and prevent future climate-related security risks, states should embrace the framework of strategies laid out by the IPCC...
After years of derision under the Trump administration, NATO members were looking forward to the summit on 14 June as a harbinger of closer and more predictable...
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany declares Federal Climate Protection Act partially unconstitutional and strengthens protection of fundamental rights of...
Climate change is changing the world we live in. It affects every aspect of life in and represents a central obstacle to peace and to achieving the UN...
VIENNA, 23 February 2021 – Opportunities for transboundary co-operation to address climate-related security risks in South-Eastern Europe were virtually...
In 2020 the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), together with adelphi and the Climate Diplomacy initiative, with support from the German Federal...
In February, the UK plans to host a high-level open debate, “Addressing climate-related security risks to international peace and security through mitigation...
In the wake of Germany’s United Nations Security Council (UNSC) presidency for the month of July 2020, its role in addressing climate change in the body gains...
Although there is no causality nor direct and automatic link between climate change and conflict, we can see that climate change can intensify conflict drivers...
How might a single threat, even one deemed unlikely, spiral into an evolving global crisis which challenges the foundations of global security, economic...