Aligning Peace and Climate Adaptation Efforts in Conflict-Affected Countries

Date & Time
Jun 18, 2026 | 16.00 - 17.30

Participants
Chair: Alec Crawford, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)
Nazanine Moshiri, Berghof Foundation (Iran)
Sebastian Kratzer,Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Germany)

Climate change adaptation is rarely, if ever, a policy priority in countries experiencing or emerging from conflict. However the shared drivers and close links between climate and conflict risk and vulnerability indicate that it would be a mistake to neglect adaptation planning and action within these contexts; ignoring climate risks and vulnerabilities can undermine peacebuilding efforts, while well designed and implemented climate adaptation can support such efforts and help address the core drivers of instability.

Adaptation and peace policy frameworks must be mutually reinforcing to account for the specific challenges related to climate and conflict. Integrated policy development and coherence requires multi-disciplinary approaches and expertise, aligning the efforts of peacebuilders with those driving a country’s medium- and long-term response to climate change.

This session will focus on the practical alignment of climate adaptation and peacebuilding plans and policies, and what can be done to better support such efforts. The session will be grounded in country case study examples, and will draw on cooperation between the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the Berghof Foundation, and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), bringing in the voices of conflict and climate affected actors.