Climate and Security: An Emerging Context in a New Era for Women, Peace and Security

Nov 10, 2020 | UN
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Join us next Tuesday, 10 November from 11:45-13:00 GMT-5 (or 17:45-19:00 CET) for a high-level webinar on Climate and Security: An Emerging Context in a New Era for Women, Peace and Security to discuss a way forward for integrating climate and environmental considerations into the WPS agenda, and ensuring gender is fully considered in debates and discussions on the security implications of climate change. 

For the first time, this year’s annual report of the Secretary-General on Women, Peace and Security includes a dedicated section on climate change and its peace and security implications. The Secretary-General stresses that “in their efforts to prevent and respond to the multitude of contemporary security challenges, countries cannot lose sight of the existential risk of today – climate change. The impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are already exacerbating complex crises across the globe.”

The objective of this side-event to the 2020 Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security is to discuss a way forward for fully integrating climate change considerations into the WPS agenda and – likewise – to ensure that gender is on the agenda in debates and discussions related to climate change and security. Co-sponsored by Canada, the current Chair of the Group of Friends on WPS, as well as Germany and Nauru, the Co-Chairs of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security, the event will bring together communities of practice on gender equality, climate action, and peace and security. Covering perspectives from different contexts, it will specifically highlight women’s voices, capacity, and agency in climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as in peacemaking and conflict prevention efforts.

Register here: bit.ly/3kRG14N

When: Nov 10th, 11:45-13:00 GMT-5

Where: Online