Building a Climate for Peace

Building a Climate for Peace 2023: Foreign policy strategies for climate security

The climate crisis and its consequences are a threat to our livelihoods. They also jeopardize the foundations of human security and international stability. By increasing food insecurity, reducing access to essential resources such as water, and triggering migration movements, the climate crisis is fuelling local conflict potential. The climate crisis thus poses a security challenge at all levels of international politics, from peacebuilding to intergovernmental relations and geopolitical dynamics. In order to meet this challenge, we need a foreign policy that recognizes the risks of the climate crisis, elaborates entry points for addressing these risks, and systematically integrates them into foreign, development, peace and security policy. 

adelphi implemented these goals as part of the "Building a Climate for Peace" project. To this end, adelphi conducted research and communicated its findings to the community of practice, including through capacity building and dialogue formats such as the annual BCSC. In order to systematically integrate climate security into foreign policy, adelphi carried out the following activities in particular:

• Development of studies and concept papers to close knowledge gaps on climate security;
• Planning and implementation of the fifth Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) in Nairobi in June 2023 and in Berlin in October 2023;
• Coordination of the activities of the Climate Security Expert Network (CSEN), which supports the mainstreaming of climate security in the work of the United Nations;
• Lectures and training, such as within the framework of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC);
• Online offerings and digital communication tools, in particular the
  • Climate diplomacy platform
  • integrated factbook comprising +130 case studies on environment, conflict and cooperation
  • interactive online exhibition
  • climate and conflict-related podcast,
  • the ECC newsletter and
  • the Twitter channel @ClimateDiplo