The countries of the Southern Africa will be among the most severely affected by climate change. Rising temperatures and sea levels as well as declining precipitation will challenge food, water and energy security in the Southern African countries.

The Dialogue highlighted the importance of transferring insights from local sustainable resource management and regional cooperation to cope with the enormous climate change challenges ahead. However, it became evident, that climate change issues still need to be better integrated into regional cooperation approaches and conflict potential analysis within the African Union (AU) and Regional Economic Communities.

As a follow up a briefing by these organizations with foreign policy makers and think tank representative facilitated by the Peace and Security Council of the AU can help to pave the way for improved early warning and early action capacities at different level in Africa.

The documentation of the event is available online.