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...
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...
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...
Women are disproportionately affected by environmental catastrophes and crimes, even as they remain at the forefront of efforts to resist them. A more holistic...
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...
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...
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...
We know environmental changes and dwindling resources can lead to conflicts and inflame grievances among societal groups or even states dependant on nature. But...
With growing competition for water resources, foreign policy should engage with political realities rather than technical solutions alone, argue Benjamin Pohl...
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...
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...
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...