Climate Finance for Sustaining Peace: Making Climate Finance Work for Conflict-Affected and Fragile Contexts
Publisher: UNDP
Date: 2021
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Programming
The vicissitudes of climate change can often hit the hardest and be felt most profoundly in conflict-affected and fragile contexts, which suffer high vulnerability and low investments in coping capacity and adaptation. The first line in addressing climate-related security risks must be ambitious, inclusive mitigation and a just transition to low carbon pathways. However, for many of the most vulnerable countries globally, on the front lines - including conflict-affected and fragile contexts - adaptation remains the imperative of today and to come. Both mitigation and adaptation are underpinned and delimited by climate finance ambition, but there has been little work specifically focused on contexts affected by conflict and fragility and their access to climate finance.
This study by UNDP, the Climate Security Mechanism and the Nataij Group sets out to address these gaps and focuses on: (i) Trends in access to climate finance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts; (ii) Gaps and opportunities to leverage the co-benefits of climate action for peace and security; (iii) Strategies for mainstreaming climate-related security risks into climate finance; and (iv) Lessons learnt, good practices, and recommendations on how to make climate finance work more effectively in contexts affected by conflict and fragility.