On 20 July, Secretary-General António Guterres presented to Member States his Policy Brief on A New Agenda for Peace, which outlines his vision for multilateral...
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...
This second edition of of NATO’s Climate Change and Security Impact Assessment responds to the demand for increased Allied awareness of the impact of climate...
Climate change can impact security in a number of ways in Central Asia. These impacts affect shared natural resources, thereby exacerbating the risks for human...
Addressing the impacts of climate change on security risks is one of the top priorities for many current and former members of the Security Council. As recent...
The 2023 United Nations World Water Development Report on Partnerships and Cooperation assesses the nature and role of partnerships and cooperation among...
The Bay of Bengal region—comprising coastal Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Thailand—is extremely vulnerable to climate change, with each of the four countries...
This thematic review analysed 74 projects supported by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund that responded to climate-security issues or...
The culmination of the IPCC Sixth Assessment cycle, the recently published synthesis report makes clear the contribution of climate change to global security.
There cannot be climate action without water action. The acknowledgement of this at this year’s UN Water Conference could represent a "once in a generation...
This paper explores how mediators should understand, and how they could address, conservation (including land restoration) in the context of peace negotiations...
Debates about different visions for the future international order are often abstract and theoretical. By invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has...
Governments have agreed a set of guidelines to protect the environment during and after wartime, the most significant legal update on the issue in 50 years.
WATCH: In this interview, Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, discusses the global implications of Russia’s war of...
A recently published paper authored by researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)...
This new report from the Center for Climate and Security explores China’s security vulnerabilities in the face of expected climate change effects, focusing on...
Fragile and conflict-affected situations, environmental degradation, and natural disasters are on the rise and threaten to reverse development gains. In the...
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...