Mediating Peace with Climate Change: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies into Peace Processes
Publisher: EcoPeace Middle East
Author(s): Alex Grzybowski and Chanda Hunnie
Date: 2021
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming
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. And it is getting much worse at a pace we are unable to predict in a timely manner, which is why global leaders, including the UN Secretary-General, are calling for immediate and substantial action. It is in this spirit that this report proposes a two-pronged approach to integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies (“climate action”) into conflict prevention and peace mediation processes (“peace processes”):
• Strengthen the enabling environment for peace processes to address climate action.
• Integrate climate action into the assessment, process design, negotiation and implementation phases of peace processes.