The culmination of the IPCC Sixth Assessment cycle, the recently published synthesis report makes clear the contribution of climate change to global security.
This paper explores how mediators should understand, and how they could address, conservation (including land restoration) in the context of peace negotiations...
Debates about different visions for the future international order are often abstract and theoretical. By invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has...
Governments have agreed a set of guidelines to protect the environment during and after wartime, the most significant legal update on the issue in 50 years.
A recently published paper authored by researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)...
Fragile and conflict-affected situations, environmental degradation, and natural disasters are on the rise and threaten to reverse development gains. In the...
The Summit in Madrid in June this year was NATO’s most important Summit since 9/11. In addition to the release of the new Strategic Concept, a radical change in...
In the African continent, where both slow and fast onset climate events undermine economic and political stability, the linkage between climate change and...
This Climate Change and Security Impact Assessment (CCSIA) responds to the demand for increased Allied awareness concerning the impact of climate change on...
A new report by WWF and adelphi looks at the complex nexus between nature and security. The report outlines four pathways through which environmental...
On 13 May 2022, G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the High Representative of...
If we are to halt global warming and prevent future climate-related security risks, states should embrace the framework of strategies laid out by the IPCC...
This publication calls attention to and provide examples of local initiatives for climate-sensitive conflict and violence prevention. In addition, the...
The conceptual approach presented here provides a systematic way to understanding and addressing the linkages between climate change, peace and security. It was...
Clearing dangerous military waste saves lives, but the clearing process sometimes damages the environment and leaves communities vulnerable to land grabbing...
While climate mitigation and adaptation measures are within the purview of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and contributions to such...
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...
The world’s liberal democracies are facing renewed competition with autocratic systems of rule. The Munich Security Report 2021, which is published ahead of the...
The International Military Council on Climate and Security's second annual World Climate and Security Report warns of the compound security threats posed by the...
We know environmental changes and dwindling resources can lead to conflicts and inflame grievances among societal groups or even states dependant on nature. But...