Climate Security: A Typology and Analysis of Climate-Related Security Risks in the First Round Nationally Determined Contributions
Publisher: UNDP
Date: 2020
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Governance, Programming
This report shares the results of a study of the first round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) conducted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with contributions from the UNFCCC secretariat. The analysis shows that climate change is recognized by many countries as a matter of national security, but also as a factor that exacerbates the drivers of different types of conflict and security risks. Conflict and insecurity are also described in the NDCs as increasing vulnerability to climate change and/or as being potentially disruptive to climate action and to the achievement of NDC targets, including in post-conflict situations.