Susanne Dröge, SWP
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2018 Climate and Security Council SWP

Germany will hold a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 2019 and 2020, and has announced that climate fragility will be one of its priorities. In a new brief, Susanne Dröge from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) comments on the challenges Germany will face when moving the topic forward. She stresses the importance of connecting the Security Council’s engagement to other climate and development policy processes and fora.

Climate Change
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Land & Food
Security
Water
Global Issues
The European Security and Defence Union Journal
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The latest issue of the European Security and Defence Union Journal looks into the security challenges brought by climate-related impacts. The issue addresses climate change as a risk multiplier in fragile contexts. Environmental stress, the weaponization of water, monitoring technologies and the role of armed forces are some of the topics.

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Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Environment & Migration
Land & Food
Security
Water
Sub-Saharan Africa
Janani Vivekananda, adelphi

Lake Chad is a geophysical and ecological miracle. Situated in the arid Sahel region, two large rivers create an oasis in an otherwise water scarce region. But today, the Lake Chad region is best known for armed conflict, Boko Haram and one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. According to Janani Vivekananda, Senior Adviser for Climate Change and Peacebuilding at adelphi, climate change plays a very real role in exacerbating and prolonging the crisis.

Conflict Transformation
Development
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Security
Sustainable Transformation
Global Issues
OECD

States of Fragility 2018 exposes the critical challenge posed by fragility in achieving the aspirations of the 2030 Agenda, sustainable development and peace. It highlights twelve key aspects of fragility, documents progress made in fragile situations on attaining sustainable development and illustrates the current state of financing to address fragility.

Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Conflict Transformation
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Security
Sustainable Transformation
Global Issues
Alexander Carius, Daria Ivleva, Benjamin Pohl, Lukas Rüttinger, Stella Schaller, Dennis Tänzler and Janani Vivekananda (adelphi)

This paper maps out the relevance of the SDGs to foreign policy. Taking the six SDGs under review at the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) in 2018 as entry points, we analyse how progress on specific SDGs may support or undermine progress on foreign policy priorities, especially SDG 16: peace.

Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Conflict Transformation
Development
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Environment & Migration
Land & Food
Security
Water
Sub-Saharan Africa
Janani Vivekananda and Camilla Born, adelphi

In this report, the Expert Working Group on Climate-Related Security Risks provides a climate-related security risk assessment and options for climate risk management strategies in the Lake Chad region.

Adaptation & Resilience
Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Environment & Migration
Land & Food
Security
Water
Sub-Saharan Africa
Chitra Nagarajan, Benjamin Pohl, Lukas Rüttinger, Florence Sylvestre, Janani Vivekananda, Martin Wall, Susanne Wolfmaier (adelphi)

This Climate-Fragility profile is envisaged as a first component of a Climate-Fragility Risk Assessment process. It summarizes the key challenges the Lake Chad region is experiencing as a consequence of the interplay between climate change and fragility.

Adaptation & Resilience
Cities
Climate Change
Development
Energy
Environment & Migration
Land & Food
Security
Water
Global Issues
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

This new report by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in collaboration with the Clingendael Institute and other Dutch research institutes points to pressure on security and migration arising from too little, too much or polluted water. Many integrated solutions are possible to divert this trend towards a sustainable and climate-resilient world.

Adaptation & Resilience
Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Conflict Transformation
Development
Early Warning & Risk Analysis
Environment & Migration
Gender
Land & Food
Security
Water
Global Issues
Environment & Development Resource Centre and Institute for Planetary Security
The Climate Change and International Security Resource Guide is produced for the Brussels Dialogue on Climate Diplomacy (BDCD) which consists of a series of informal meetings to exchange information and promote cooperation among European institutions and international organisations active in the nexus between climate change and international, national, human and environmental security.
Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Climate Change
Conflict Transformation
Environment & Migration
Security
Global Issues
Edited by Ashok Swain (Uppsala University) and Joakim Öjendal (University of Gothenburg)

The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a large body of research examining the linkage between environmental scarcity, violent conflict, and cooperation. However, this environmental security polemic is still trying to deliver a well-defined approach to achieving peace.

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