Conflict-ridden and fragile countries are among the most vulnerable to climate change and least prepared to deal with it. They are largely excluded from climate...
The Weathering Risk Peace Pillar translates climate-security foresight and analysis into peacebuilding action where it is needed most. Partners work across the...
Following COP28, Jakob Gomolka, Tendai Kasinganeti and Héctor Morales Muñoz summarize the findings of their African Climate Security Risk Assessment (ACRA)...
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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...
This article by Sebastian Kratzer from HD’s Mediation Support and Policy Unit is based on a panel discussion at the EU’s 2023 Peace Mediation Community of...
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.
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.
A recently published paper authored by researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)...
Financing paid by rich countries to developing ones for the impacts of climate change, known as loss and damage payments, is finally, and rightly on the agenda...
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...
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...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the brakes on human mobility, with a particularly severe impact on those who depend on migration as a way to cope with economic...
Clearing dangerous military waste saves lives, but the clearing process sometimes damages the environment and leaves communities vulnerable to land grabbing...
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...