Spencer McMurray

Spencer Adrian McMurray is a Consultant in the Climate Diplomacy and Security team at adelphi, specialising in stabilisation, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. His work focuses on helping to better articulate the links between climate change, fragility, instability and conflict, and identifying their collective impact and challenges on stability in communities and countries. As a conflict resolution practitioner with a background in theory and UN operations, Spencer is keen to develop practitioner ready methods and processes to thwart current and future climate-security related challenges to peace.

Publications

Integrating Climate Security into Policies: Roadmap for Iraq

This roadmap identifies the urgent challenges and strategic directions necessary for integrating climate security into Iraq's policy landscape. It proposes actions for Iraqi authorities and their international partners to ensure Iraq accesses essential resources to address climate-related security challenges and achieve policy goals.

Pacific Climate Security Assessment Guide

The new Pacific Climate Security Assessment guide aims to support Pacific Island Countries to collectively and individually uncover, assess and respond to climate security implications for their peoples, prosperity and peace.

Integrating Climate Security into Policy Frameworks: Roadmap for Yemen

This roadmap outlines some of the critical challenges Yemen faces in integrating climate security into its policy, suggesting a course of action for the short, medium, and long term and provides recommendations for the donor community.

Roots for peace: uncovering climate security challenges in Haiti and what to do about them

To help guide the work of the Haiti Climate Security Working Group, adelphi led a collaborative effort to undertake a study mapping out the linkages between climate, peace and security in Haiti, applying the methodology of the Weathering Risk initiative.

Scenario-based analysis: Levant

The impacts of climate change are already adversely shaping security in the Levant region, comprising Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. This scenario-based analysis explores four possible future climate security scenarios for the Levant, in order to anticipate future risks and identify priority policy areas.

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Climate security scenarios in the Balkans

The new summary report on ‘Climate Security Scenarios in the Balkans’ examines climate security futures for the Western Balkans region and identifies entry points for anticipatory action on climate resilience for NATO and the EU.

Articles

Why international support for Haiti must include climate security

Haiti is the most vulnerable country in Latin America and the Caribbean to climate change. Tackling environmental degradation and climate change impacts on livelihoods must be a priority.

Events

Why understanding and addressing climate security in the Pacific is essential for all of us

With the Pacific region being particularly vulnerable to the security impacts of climate change, UNDP, IOM, adelphi and project partners will develop the first ever regional Climate-Security Risk Assessment Framework, including actions and recommendations.

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