This blog post briefly presents the links that have been established between climate change and security and reflects on the current debate, how the UN Security...
What can climate security learn from the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda? The two agendas share the need for urgent, context-specific, interdisciplinary...
Water deprivation is increasingly recognized as a political and security problem. Tensions resulting from the growing imbalance between global water demand and...
On 23 March 2021, China’s Minister for Ecology and Environment, Huang Runqiu, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President, Frans Timmermans, and the...
With the recent climate action announcements of the Biden administration, the US joins China and the EU in the club of superpowers committed to climate...
In its 20 years providing intelligence on climate foreign policy, environment, conflict and cooperation for key decision-makers, the Climate Diplomacy platform...
Michael Keating, Executive Director at the European Institue of Peace (EIP), argues that peacebuilding and conflict resolution must not disregard the impacts of...
WATCH: This workshop brings together academics, researchers, as well as national and international policy makers to discuss the extent to which direct, indirect...
WATCH: The objectives of this session are to unpack the gender dimensions of climate-related security risks and point out opportunities for action. Speakers...
WATCH: This event features Andrew Gilmour, Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation, and Janani Vivekananda, Senior Advisor at adelphi, in an intimate...
As political and public narratives on COVID-19 shift towards the need to ‘build back better’, the pandemic continues to take a heavy toll for many. A new report...
The novel corona virus has had the world in its grip for months. Most countries’ immediate response was to focus on internal issues: they resorted to...
We are entering the last days of the BCSC 2020, with insightful discussions on a number of climate security challenges still to come, as well as the launch of...
WATCH: The UN Security Council held an open debate on climate and security on 24.07.2020. The debate has raised crucial points around action on climate-related...
With the European Green Deal, the European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen has committed to accelerating decarbonisation in Europe as a major...
The impact of climate change is posing a growing threat to peace and security. Germany is therefore putting climate and security on the Security Council’s...
WATCH: Back in 2011, Germany set out a landmark presidential statement to the UN Security Council on climate and security. Ambassador Hinrich Thölken, who was...
Natural resources-based conflicts are sometimes made complex by non-climate push and pull factors, like unemployment and political tension. These factors should...
It’s crunch time for the global climate security discourse. While the COVID-19 crisis remains the key present challenge, it’s time to take stock of where the...