The seventh Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) 2025 explored how to navigate climate, conflict, and cooperation in a turbulent era, highlighting the...

This policy paper examines how land-based carbon credit schemes can displace local communities and Indigenous peoples, particularly in areas with contested land...

This high-level plenary examined why traditional multilateral frameworks struggled to deliver timely, context-specific climate security solutions, despite...

This session examined how climate change is a present and growing security challenge, undermining infrastructure, economies, and stability within and beyond...

This high-level plenary opened the conference by exploring how climate change is reshaping the global security landscape.

This session assessed how the European Union’s growing role in defence readiness requires stepping up efforts to ensure the climate resilience of European Armed...

This session focused on the policy dimensions of cross boundary human mobility, drawing on case studies from South Eastern Europe (OSCE), the Caribbean (UNEP...

Since its inaugural edition in 2019, The Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) has become the global forum on climate, peace and security.

The sixth Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) 2024 explored how to secure a climate for peace and highlighted the importance of integrating climate...

The Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment (ACRA) is the first comprehensive study of climate security across Africa. It identifies climate security pathways...

Climate change as a global challenge affects our security and defence policy and therefore directly impacts the Federal Ministry of Defence’s area of...