Launch Event: WWF-adelphi Report "The Nature of Conflict and Peace"

May 18, 2022 | World Wide Fund for Nature and adelphi
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Environmental degradation and biodiversity loss are important drivers of insecurity and conflict around the world, and increasingly impact global peace and security. This nature-security nexus is visible in the links between biodiversity and livelihood insecurity, natural resource conflicts, conflict financing and environmental crimes, and the impacts of war and conflict on the environment.

With the importance of addressing this nexus increasing in importance as environmental degradation and biodiversity loss intensify, and as geopolitical tensions with wide-ranging environmental impacts are on the rise, join us for a public launch event of the new WWF-adelphi report: The Nature of Conflict and Peace: The links between environment, security and peace and their importance for the United Nations.

The nature-security nexus

The climate-security nexus and the nature-security nexus overlap and cannot be fully addressed independently of one another. In fact, environmental factors are often a critical link in the pathway from climate change impacts to security risks. However, the nature-security nexus comprises additional interactions in which climate impacts play no or only smaller aggravating roles. Hence, the nature-security nexus puts biodiversity and ecosystems rather than climate change at its centre.

Environmental crisis and insecurity often reinforce each other. To break this self-enforcing cycle, all security, environment and development actors need to engage in a comprehensive environmental security agenda. This includes several UN agencies and bodies, which need to acknowledge and address the full breadth of the nature-security nexus.

In this public launch event, we will present four main pathways that form the nature-security nexus and discuss a set of recommendations for the UN system.

Programme:

  • Welcome by the event’s moderator Meaghan Parker, Executive Director of the Society of Environmental Journalists
  • Presentation of the report by Florian Titze, Policy Advisor International Biodiversity Policy, WWF, and Lukas Rüttinger, Senior Advisor, adelphi
  • The presentation of the report will be accompanied by a panel discussion with
  • Alice Ruhweza, Africa Region Director, WWF

There will be a public Q&A session after the panel discussion.