Within the multilateral system, there is increasing interest in exploring how climate change risks interact with other factors – including livelihoods, gender...
2021 represents an important year for climate diplomacy and holds unique opportunities for progress on the issue. To advance joint, cross-government, cross...
The first report of the Planetary Security Initiative's climate security practices project draws lessons from and reflects on 8 climate security practices that...
Justice has long been a central element of the international community’s approach to climate change, including with regard to financial support for adaptation...
The 2021 World Water Development Report on “Valuing Water” assesses the current status of, and challenges to, the valuation of water across different sectors...
This report explores the main impacts of climate change on the water cycle and water-dependent sectors, and develops recommendations for how the water sector...
WATCH: When it comes to security, the impacts of climate change are particularly harmful. On top of creating unbearable natural conditions in already fragile...
The Climate Security Expert Network (CSEN) Roundtable took place on 28 January 2021 in a digital format. It aimed at updating CSEN members on progress and...
This policy brief examines the issue of climate-security primarily from the perspective of UN field offices around the world. It draws principally on a set of...
This policy brief provides a typology and analysis of climate-related security risks in the first round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The...
This policy brief explores initial lessons learnt from a climate security perspective of efforts to prevent violent extremism in politically and environmentally...
The 2020 Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) proved an important space for international organisations, the scientific community, the private sector...
WATCH: This session brings together speakers from new and ongoing research initiatives aiming to provide policymakers with more robust tools and insights to...
WATCH: During this session, risks of and solutions to increased urban violence and insecurity as a result of climate change-induced rural to urban migration are...
The COVID-19 pandemic has profound global impacts. While all countries have been affected, the pandemic is hitting those that were already struggling with...
This new research report by the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) investigates to what extent the 15 current...
On 24 July 2020, the UN Security Council met for a keynote debate to discuss the security implications of climate change impacts in a session chaired by German...
This CSEN briefer outlines the different sets of tools available to the UN organs for responding to climate-security risks and offers the rationale for...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has so far been reluctant to tackle climate change. But as climate-related impacts on security become more apparent...
WATCH: After launching the Berlin Call for Action in 2019 and working to increase the momentum for decisive action to address climate-related drivers of...