Interview with Catherine Wong, Global Team Leader for Climate and Security Risk at the UNDP
Publisher: Planetary Security Initiative
Date: 2024
Topics: Climate Change, Peace and Security Operations, Programming
On 28 November, PSI spoke to Catherine Wong, who serves as global team leader for Climate and Security Risk and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). PSI learned about her personal motivations and the tangible approaches implemented to reduce the negative security impacts of climate change. Wong emphasises the difficulties faced by conflict-affected countries in accessing climate finance, ‘in all the contexts I’ve worked in, climate and environmental actors are the weakest actors in their institutional settings, with the least access to resources.’’ She stresses the need for cooperation between different climate and peacebuilding actors, partners on the ground, and research institutes.