Part 1: Assessing the risks of climate change related conflict: How to improve approaches for and strengthen collaboration within the field of climate security modelling?

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The availability of high quality and innovative data as well as the computational capacity to analyse them are growing. These advances have a potential to improve our understanding of the complex,context-specific impacts of climatic and environmental events. They could provide a vital basis for anticipatory action to reduce and avoid current and future security risks in a changing climate. Several data-driven approaches to analyse the interlinked climate and environmental change and security risks are currently being developed. Our podcast, that consist of two episodes, will bring together representatives of three prominent initiatives that use state of the art climate security modelling to support policy making and programming for peacebuilding operations: Weathering Risk, STRATA - The Earth Stress Monitor, and Tools for climate change and fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). All three initiatives are aiming at a better understanding of the complex climate-security risks in order to provide entry points for action to prevent the escalation of climate related conflicts and promote sustainable peace. Importantly, we will not merely introduce the initiatives, but we will also discuss their comprehensiveness and suitability together with practitioners from the ground.

In the first episode, we will introduce and discuss the Weathering Risk initiative from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and adelphi, and STRATA – the Earth Stress monitor from the UN Environment Programme. The second episode introduces the listeners to the World Bank’s initiative Tools for climate change and fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) from the World Bank, before elaborating on the opportunities and challenges of the initiatives and climate security modelling in more general terms in a joint discussion.

The first Episode will be with: Barbora Sedova, Marie Schellens, Ifrah Hassan Farah, Issa Lele, Francis Eitomhen.

The second Episode will be with: Barbora Sedova, Marie Schellens, Corey Pattison.

Email us at:

binder@pik-potsdam.de

sedova@pik-potsdam.de

marie.schellens@un.org

corey.pattison@un.org

Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.