In the lead-up to the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), UNEP provides background on the world’s foremost environmental decision...
Responsibility for climate-related security risks falls to different institutions within the United Nations system. No single entity is responsible for...
Progress has stalled for the time being on a United Nations Security Council Resolution on climate security. However, a recent communique from the African Union...
In recent years, there has been an outpouring of evidence that climate change is intensifying and driving conflict situations around the world. The socio...
One emerging solution to the climate crisis involves securing investments and prioritizing financial commitments towards clean technologies and shifting towards...
Over the past year, the UN’s limitations in preventing deadly conflict have repeatedly been on display. But the world organisation still has several vital roles...
Clearing dangerous military waste saves lives, but the clearing process sometimes damages the environment and leaves communities vulnerable to land grabbing...
What before was 'clear' is now 'unequivocal': human activity is causing the climate to change rapidly and drastically, while threatening the environment and the...
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...
We know environmental changes and dwindling resources can lead to conflicts and inflame grievances among societal groups or even states dependant on nature. But...
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...
Chatham House's International Affairs Journal has just released a special issue focused on environmental peacebuilding. adelphi Managing Director Alexander...
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...
Michael Keating, Executive Director at the European Institue of Peace (EIP), argues that peacebuilding and conflict resolution must not disregard the impacts of...
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...