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Climate Change and Security in the Andean Region

23 January 2012
Bogota, Colombia

The Dialogue highlighted the need to focus on adaptation and to strengthen national and local capacities. Participants underlined that climate change and variability have the potential to exacerbate already existing vulnerabilities and risks, threaten human security and fuel existing conflicts.

The Andean countries will face a series of significant challenges posed by climate change, and will be among those most severely affected. Structural factors further deepen the region’s vulnerability. On 23 January 2012, experts from academia, civil society and public policy from the Andes met in Bogotá to discuss the interlinkages between climate and security in the region. The Dialogue was organized by adelphi, the Centre for International Studies (CEI) and the Program on Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding (ConPaz) from the Universidad de los Andes, and was supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.

The Dialogue strongly recommended an integrated approach that takes climate as a cross-cutting focus and recognized the potential of the debates surrounding the topic of climate to open doors for renewed national and regional cooperation.

The documentation of the event is available online.

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