Signs of Progress: Environment and Conflict in the UN Security Council
Publisher: PAX and Planetary Security Initiative
Author(s): Wim Zwijnenburg and Brittany Roser
Date: 2020
Topics: Governance
What is needed to fully tackle the complex challenges around environmental dimensions of armed conflicts? Civil society, affected states and experts have struggled with this essential question for decades. This briefing note elaborates on the latest insights on this issue as expressed during an informal (Arria formula) meeting on this topic in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).