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Climate Security in the Era of Uncertainty [Video]

2025 | Observer Research Foundation

From unprecedented rains and floods stretching from the Middle East to China, destructive heat waves across southern Asia, wildfires across Western countries, the planet is…


South Sudan/ Gender Climate Peace Workshop

2024
UN Mission in South Sudan

In South Sudan, the climate crisis worsens an already critical humanitarian and security situation. Extreme weather, locust infestations, and droughts jeopardize food security, livelihoods, and…


State of the Pacific 2024 -- Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]

2024 | Australia National University
Anouk Ride

Environmental conflicts are experienced in many parts of the Pacific islands, particularly in situations involving indigenous peoples and land use agreements. This panel draws on…


Swathi Veeravalli on the Importance of Climate Security for US Strategic Interests [Audio]

2024 | New Security Broadcast
Lauren Risi and Swathi Veeravalli

In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Program Director Lauren Risi sits down with Swathi Veeravalli on her last day as the Director for…


States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security [Video]

2024 | UCLA
Joshua W. Busby

Under what circumstances might climate change lead to negative security outcomes? Over the past fifteen years, a rapidly growing applied field and research community on…


Transitioning to Clean and Sustainable Energies: What Opportunities for Peace? [Video]

2024 | United Nations System Staff College

Building on the outcomes of the experts’ roundtable on Climate, Peace and Security co-organized by the UNSSC, the University of Turin and King’s College London…


Environmental Security in War and Armed Conflict [Video]

2024 | UN Web TV

War against Ukraine caused large-scale environmental damage resulted in unprecedented pollution, disruption of ecosystems and physical destruction of biological species both on the territory of…


Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Destruction and the Need for Accountability [Video]

2024 | Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Kristina Hook, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, and Maryna Boydyuk

In the ten years since Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine estimates that Russia has inflicted some $60 billion in damages to…


Journalist Peter Schwartzstein on the Link between Climate Change and Conflict [Video]

2024 | France 24

From farmers-turned-pirates in Bangladesh to jihadists in Iraq using drought as a recruiting tool, a new book by environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores the link…


Peter Schwartzstein: Climate Violence in the Middle East [Video]

2024 | Center for Strategic and International Studies

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Peter Schwartzstein, an environmental journalist who reports on water, food security, and the conflict-climate nexus in around…


Sherri Goodman: How to Stop Climate-Driven Conflicts Before They Start [Video]

2024 | How We Change the World
Sherri Goodman

When Sherri Goodman, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security, joined the Senate Armed Services Committee as one of the first female professional staff…


Path to Peace - Third Environmental Peacebuilding Conference Edition [Video]

2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Austin Willacy, Becca Farnum, and Sophie Bruch

Nature Footprints is a collection of art from around the world bringing together community stories of climate, conflict, and peace. The collection amplifies the voices…


UN Peacebuilding on International Women's Day

2023 | UN Peacebuilding
Awa Dabo

The connection between environmental degradation & oppression of women has been recognized for years by women & feminist movements.
Addressing #ClimateChange also depends on ensuring feminist solutions to…


Climate Security, Sweden and NATO Spotlight: An Interview with Benedetta Berti, NATO [Video]

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

As part of the series 'Climate security, Sweden and NATO', SIPRI interviewed Benedetta Berti, Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General…


Climate Security, Sweden and NATO Spotlight: An Interview with Blair Brimmell, Global Affairs Canada [Video]

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

As part of the series 'Climate security, Sweden and NATO', SIPRI interviewed Blair Brimmell, Interim Director of the NATO Climate Change and Security Center of…


Climate Security, Sweden and NATO Spotlight: An Interview with Bruce Jones, Brookings Institution [Video]

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

As part of the series 'Climate security, Sweden and NATO', SIPRI interviewed Bruce Jones, Director and Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and…


Climate Security, Sweden and NATO Spotlight: An Interview with Stefan Larsson, Swedish Armed Forces [Video]

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

As part of the series 'Climate security, Sweden and NATO', SIPRI interviewed Stefan Larsson, Chief of Long Term Strategic Planning and Analysis Division, Swedish Armed…


The Arctic Heats up: Global Competition in the High North [Audio]

2022 | Modern War Institute
Benjamin Jebb and Jeff Phaneuf

Episode 69 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast examines the evolving relationship between climate change, Arctic security, and geopolitical competition.

The guests begin by describing America’s interests in the…


How Conflict Causes Food Insecurity

2022 | NowThis News

'Ukraine was the food basket of the world before this conflict started' — More than 2.3 billion people experience food insecurity worldwide. Here's why conflict…


Traveling Virtually to the Pacific - The UN Uses Virtual Reality for Advocacy on Climate Security [Video]

2022 | UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

Together with the Government of Japan, the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA) developed a Virtual Reality (VR) experience on climate change…


Regional Cooperation for Climate Security: A Look into the Horn of Africa [Audio]

2022 | Climate Diplomacy
Ayan Mahamoud

In this episode, we speak with Ayan Mahamoud, Senior Coordinator of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional economic community with eight member states…


Nature in The Race to Zero, Part 1: Environment in Time of War [Video]

2022 | EARTHDAY.ORG
Carl Bruch, Kathleen Rogers, Iryna Stavchuk, Stefan Smith, Michael Bothe, and José R. Allen

EARTHDAY.ORG, together with our partners, is proud to present the Earth Day Climate Action Summit. We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century…


Reflections on Environmental Peacebuilding, COP26 and Faith-Informed Work [Audio]

2022 | The Kroc Cast: Peace Studies Conversations
Emmanuel Katongole and Elsa Barron

Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies, talks with recent peace studies graduate and climate activist Elsa Barron (B.A. '21) who attended the 2021…


Post-War Reconstruction of Ukraine [Audio]

2022 | BankWatch Podcast
Michaela Kožmínová, Vlada Martsynkevych, and Natalia Gozak

While the fight to liberate Ukraine is still ongoing, discussions about the reconstruction process have already begun. Several proposals developed by a variety of stakeholders…


A Sustainable Defence? (Episode 2 of "Greening Defence" Podcast) [Audio]

2022 | Royal United Services Institute
Alistair Beard, Linsey Cottrell, Richard Wardlaw, and Howard Lungley

Sustainability can be somewhat of an umbrella phrase, misused to cover a spectrum of climate change related activities. But what does the term mean for…


Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk [Video]

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Environment Of Peace provides the most comprehensive account to date of how different aspects of environmental crisis—including climate change, mass extinctions and resource scarcity—are interacting…


The Importance of a Greener Culture (Episode 3 of "Greening Defence" Podcast) [Audio]

2022 | Royal United Services Institute
Alistair Beard

Organisations often look to technology to provide a solution to the problems posed by climate change, but is the importance of organisational culture underestimated?In this…


How the Chinese Military Is Preparing for Climate Change - The Green Line [Audio]

2022 | The Red Line

Beijing now plays a crucial part in the global supply chain, and with it, the global CO2 output. However, even though China only recently reached…


Legal Lessons from Conflict Minerals Disclosures and Potential Parallels in Climate Disclosures [Audio]

2022 | PracticalESG
Michael Littenberg

A number of legal concerns arose from conflict minerals reporting and the use of supplier data for regulatory reporting. Michael Littenberg talks about risks that…


Climate and Conflict [Video]

2022 | Chatham House

In an ever more challenging security horizon, climate change and the destruction of the natural environment represent some of the most significant challenges. These crises…