Climate Change
Climate change is an urgent global issue that affects all aspects of our lives, ranging from environmental sustainability to socio-economic and political stability. The effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and altered precipitation patterns, have led to environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. These changes also exacerbate poverty and inequality, contributing to a conducive environment for armed conflict and terrorism. The link between climate change and violent conflict underscores the pressing need for environmental peacebuilding M&E.Climate change is a multifaceted issue that requires a comprehensive approach to mitigate its impact on peacebuilding. By integrating climate-related issues into peacebuilding initiatives, M&E can help preserve local ecosystems, promote human development, and address grievances and livelihood instability that fuel armed conflict.
There are 74 resources related to Climate Change.
Biodiversity, peace and conflict: understandings the connections
2023
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SSRN
Lucy Rist, Cibele Queiroz, and Albert Norström
Trajectories of human conflict have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem function. These occur across terrestrial, marine and freshwater systems via the well-established…
Climate Change, Food, and Nutrition Policies in Uganda: Are They Gender- and Nutrition-Sensitive?
2020
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CGIAR
Patricia Ahuro Bamanyaki
This brief draws attention to some gaps in the mainstreaming of gender and nutrition in climate change, and food and nutrition-related policy documents, which may…
Guidelines for Conflict-Sensitive Adaptation to Climate Change
2019
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adelphi
Dennis Tänzler and Nikolas Scherer
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, and reduces access to and the availability of resources – environmental changes that have serious…
Leveraging Co-benefits between Gender Equality and Climate Action for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Gender Considerations in Climate Change Projects
2016
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UN Women
In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly. While some have hailed…
Weather Shocks and Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
2015
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Center for Effective Global Action
Sara Cools, Martin Flatø, and Andreas Kotsadam
This study uses variation in rainfall to study how extreme shocks to income affect intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that women experiencing…
Ground for Peace: Land Restoration for International Peace and Security
2024
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Beatrice Mosello, Mary Elizabeth Potts, Hector Morales Munoz, Sandor Msdar, and Oli Brown
For more than three billion people, land is core to their survival, wellbeing, and dignity. However, with between 20–40% of total global land area degraded…
Climate Security in South Sudan: A Conversation with Ratia Tekenet [Audio]
2024
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New Security Beat
Wilson Center
In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Director Lauren Risi interviews Ratia Tekenet, a Climate Security Expert with the UN Mission in South Sudan…
Conflict Mitigation as a Means of Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons for Policy and Development Practice
2024
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Environment and Security
Daniel Abrahams and Kayly Ober
In this article, the authors examine the ways conflict can drive climate change vulnerability and, in turn, argue that conflict mitigation can act as a…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
2024
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Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi
The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…
Peace, Conflict, and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Alec Crawford, Anne Hammill, and Anne Tadgell
For states experiencing conflict, climate change adaptation is rarely, if ever, an immediate priority: issues such as national defence, the prevention of further loss of…
Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Land Use/Land Cover Changes Due to Armed Conflict
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Saeed Mhanna, Landon J.S. Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, and Philip Brunner
Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed conflict…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility
2023
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Routledge
Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, and Anupam Anand, with Shehla Chowdhury and Sierra Killian
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.
Seeking to better understand…
Climate Change Actions in Conflict Affected Contexts: Insights from Myanmar after the Military Coup
2023
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Danish Institute for International Studies
Maria Kyed and Justine Chambers
Violent conflict and state oppression in Myanmar demonstrates the importance of placing conflict analysis and people-centred approaches at the centre of international programming on climate…
An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature
2023
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African Peacebuilding Network
Godwin Onuoha
This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility (OPEN ACCESS)
2023
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Taylor & Francis
Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand, Shehla Chowdhury, and Sierra Killian
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.
Seeking to better understand…
The Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks
2023
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Climate Diplomacy
Hector Morales-Munoz
Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
Charles Kelly
When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks
2005
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Disasters
Margarita Flores, Yasmeen Khwaja, and Philip White
This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements…
Theory of Change Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Programming
2014
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UKCIP
Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn, and Patrick Pringle
In this Guidance Note, we describe the Theory of Change approach and explain why it is a good fit for climate change adaptation programming. We…
Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation: Learning From Methods in International Development
2015
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New Directions for Evaluation
Susannah Fisher, Ayesha Dinshaw, Hearther McGray, Neha Rai, and John Schaar
This article reviews evaluation methods used in the field of international development to draw lessons for the specific challenges of evaluating climate change adaptation. The…
Enhancing Resilience to Food Security Shocks
2012
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TANGO International
Tim Frankenberger, Mark Langworthy, Tom Spangler, and Suzanne Nelson
This paper identifies the key elements and processes involved in resilience building in various contexts but draws extensively from literature and programming experienced based in…
Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Climate Resilience: A Guidance Paper for the Philippines
2017
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ISET Relience and Research Group
Kenneth MacClune, Colleen McGinn, Furqan Asif and Kanmani Venkateswaran
Climate change and its negative effects are already being felt strongly around the world, and are projected to increase. The brunt of its effects will…
At the Heart of REDD+: A Role for Local People in Monitoring Forests?
2010
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Conservation Letters
Finn Danielsen, Margaret Skutsch, Neil D. Burgess, Per M. Jensen, Herizo Andrianandrasana, Bhaskar Karky, Richard Lewis, Jon C. Lovett, John Massao, Yonika Ngaga, Pushkin Phartiyal, Michael K. Poulsen, S. P. SIngh, Silvia Solis, Marten Sorensen, Ashish Te
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is a policy mechanism now agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
Climate Change a "Top Tier Threat" in the 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy
2022
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Center for Climate & Security
Sherri Goodman, Holly Kaufman, and Pauline Baudu
The Biden Administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), released in October 2022, elevates attention and focus on climate security beyond any prior NSS. The security risks…
Mediating Peace with Climate Change: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies into Peace Processes
2021
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EcoPeace Middle East
Alex Grzybowski and Chanda Hunnie
This report builds on the recognition that climate change is a risk multiplier and destabilizing force, particularly in the most vulnerable regions of the world.…
Environmental Peacebuilding - The Year in Review and the Year Ahead [Video]
2023
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association hosted its annual year-in-review roundtable on “Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead” on January 24, 2023. This…
Local Indicators for Climate Security Risk Assessment: Learning from Uganda How to Strengthen Climate Action and Peacebuilding
2022
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Center for Conflict Resolution Uganda
Akiteng Marion
In the Kaabong district in the North of Uganda, climate change amplifies conflict drivers that can lead to increased social or violent conflict. Kaabong is a semi-arid…
Climate-Sensitive Programming in International Security: An Analysis of UN Peacekeeping Operations and Special Political Missions
2022
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International Peacekeeping
Cesare M. Scartozzi
Over the past three decades, United Nations (UN) Peace Operations have become increasingly multidimensional and integrated. Blue helmets, originally deployed to provide security and enforce…
Contesting the Climate: Security Implications of Geoengineering
2020
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Springer
Muhammet Bas and Aseem Mahajan
Scientists predict higher global temperatures over this century. While this may benefit some countries, most will face varying degrees of damage. This has motivated research…
Measuring Climate Security: Related Security Threats?
2021
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CGIAR Focus Climate Security
Ignacio M. Lopez, Giulia Caroli, Grazia Pacillo, and Peter Läderach
It is widely recognized that climate change has the potential to affect the social, economic, and political processes that can lead to instability, insecurity, and…