After years of derision under the Trump administration, NATO members were looking forward to the summit on 14 June as a harbinger of closer and more predictable...
What can climate security learn from the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda? The two agendas share the need for urgent, context-specific, interdisciplinary...
In this report, Eoghan Darbyshire assesses the current state of forest loss in conflict areas, surveying the changes and hotspots in the past 15 months during...
Water deprivation is increasingly recognized as a political and security problem. Tensions resulting from the growing imbalance between global water demand and...
Climate change is changing the world we live in. It affects every aspect of life in and represents a central obstacle to peace and to achieving the UN...
In 2020 the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), together with adelphi and the Climate Diplomacy initiative, with support from the German Federal...
In February, the UK plans to host a high-level open debate, “Addressing climate-related security risks to international peace and security through mitigation...
This independent report, commissioned by the G7 members in 2015, identifies seven compound climate-fragility risks that pose serious threats to the stability of...
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...
Climate change contributes to the drivers of conflict and conflict affects peoples‘ adaptation capacities. This infographic looks into climate and fragility...
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...
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...
Climate change is increasingly challenging global security and undermining peacebuilding efforts. UN Environment and the European Union have joined forces to...
Nobody needs to be convinced that climate change affects our very existence and security. However, experts are interested to know how climate change affects...
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...