WATCH: This event launched the Climate for Peace Declaration and Initiative through a discussion of its purpose, sharing examples of proposed and committed...
WATCH: The evidence is clear: climate change poses an increased risk to peace and stability by exacerbating drivers of conflict, whereby the most vulnerable...
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 climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface temperature of...
WATCH: A UN Security Council resolution on climate change and security seems to be within reach. What difference would it make, and how can it benefit people in...
WATCH: Climate and Environmental Security are becoming an important issue for peace operations – both related to mandate delivery, as well as to the ecological...
WATCH: Around the world, climate change interacts with social, political, economic, and environmental drivers of conflict and fragility, thereby challenging the...
Connected and healthy rivers deliver many important benefits, but if all currently proposed hydropower dams are built, over 260,000 km of rivers will lose free...
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...
With growing competition for water resources, foreign policy should engage with political realities rather than technical solutions alone, argue Benjamin Pohl...
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...
That future wars will be fought over water, rather than oil, has become something of a truism, particularly with regard to the Middle East. It’s also one that...
WATCH: When it comes to security, the impacts of climate change are particularly harmful. On top of creating unbearable natural conditions in already fragile...
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 his address on this year’s World Cities Day, UN-Secretary General António Guterres recognised that “cities have borne the brunt of the pandemic” and called...
As part of this year’s online World Water Week at Home, adelphi and IHE Delft convened the workshop "Water diplomacy: a tool for climate action?". The workshop...
Conflicts connected to water-security are often related to climate change issues. However, the link between water-scarcity-related risks and security challenges...