In February, the UK plans to host a high-level open debate, “Addressing climate-related security risks to international peace and security through mitigation...
On 1 December, adelphi, the UN University’s Centre for Policy Research, and the UN’s Climate Security Mechanism cohosted a Regional Dialogue on Climate Security...
Though focused on climate change, National Adaptation Plans offer important assessments of the risks a country faces and can be valuable in devising...
In the wake of Germany’s United Nations Security Council (UNSC) presidency for the month of July 2020, its role in addressing climate change in the body gains...
Although there is no causality nor direct and automatic link between climate change and conflict, we can see that climate change can intensify conflict drivers...
How might a single threat, even one deemed unlikely, spiral into an evolving global crisis which challenges the foundations of global security, economic...
During the past two weeks, Antigua & Barbuda, Nicaragua and Panama ratified the Escazú Agreement, giving a major boost to the unprecedented and innovative Latin...
The mission of the Munich Security Conference is to “address the world’s most pressing security concerns”. These days, that means climate security: climate...
If you have even a passing familiarity with the climate and security literature, you undoubtedly have come across the phrase “threat multiplier.” The phrase...
As the second week of COP25 begins in Madrid, it is time to stress once more the importance of building momentum for adaptation. There is obviously a need for...
If the United Nations is to effectively deal with climate-related security risks, it needs expert support from every region. That’s where the Climate Security...
Nobody needs to be convinced that climate change affects our very existence and security. However, experts are interested to know how climate change affects...
Ten years after committing to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, G20 countries still subsidise coal, oil and gas to the tune of around USD 150 billion annually...
Policymakers and emergency managers tend to build a conceptual wall between natural hazards and terrorism. The causes of—and remedies for—these two kinds of...
Environmental institutions have been established in the global south to improve environmental regulation and increasingly contentious extractive landscapes, but...
To fight illegal coca plantations and conflict actors’ income sources, Colombia’s president wants to loosen the ban on aerial glyphosate spraying. However...
No country is immune to natural hazards, but for fragile states, the effects are even more severe. Mostly, conflict prevention and humanitarian aid are seen as...
Climate and security were the focus of a high-level foreign policy conference held in Berlin in early June. At the core of the conference was the “Berlin Call...
Costs, emissions and safety are at stake as Argentina and China look set to seal a nuclear power deal. In the midst of economic and political uncertainty...
On Tuesday, 4 June, seven foreign ministers, 19 ambassadors, several ministers and more than 200 experts met in Berlin to act on climate security risks at the...