How to Integrate Climate and Conflict Risks in Development Cooperation – Experiences and Lessons Learnt


Publisher: Stockholm University

Author(s): Maria-Therese Gustafsson

Date: 2016

Topics: Climate Change, Programming

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There is broad agreement among practitioners and scholars that the combined task of responding to climate induced security risks requires ‘integrated approaches’. While development organisations have started to integrate the security implications of climate change into high-level policies, there are still important obstacles to effective implementation. This policy brief summarises how development organisations in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands handle the task of integrating climate and conflict considerations in policy and practice and outlines the lessons learnt.