In this video, Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute, talks about the linkages between climate change and migration, emphasizing that most of it actually happens as labour migration within countries or to neigbouring countries. Smith also points out that the part to which climate change actually causes migration often remains unclear because issues of social injustice are strongly connected to these decisions.

In this video, Neil Morisetti explains that apart from more traditional threats to global stability, there are now also non-traditional threats – environmental threats or resource threats – emerging. These threats, Morisetti says, are most likely to materialize into conflict where governments don’t have sufficient capacity to build resilience. Morisetti is Director of Strategy at the UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy Department.

Dawid Danilo Bartelt, book author and Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico, explains in an interview with ECC the unprecedent level of resource exploitation in Latin America and the plethora of conflicts that arises from this (still growing) trend.

In this video, Janani Vivekananda, reflects on major global frameworks for sustainable development. She argues that one has to work across the different frameworks to realise cross-sectorial benefits. Donors - when they design calls and funding allocations - should not restrict themselves to individual frameworks, but should link in the Paris Agreement, SDGs, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

In April 2017, the UN Security Council sent a mission to the Lake Chad region, where the largest humanitarian crisis is currently playing out. Carl Skau, Ambassador and UN Security Council Coordinator from Sweden, went on that mission and tells us what he saw in Nigeria and Chad, and what struck him most. It is imperative to now follow-up on that visit, and firmly establish climate security risks in the Council's work.