24.03.2025 10:00 – 11:30
Online

ECCP Learning Series on Climate Security

The Climate Security Learning Series, initiated by Ecosystems for Peace, seeks to build understanding of national and regional security approaches to climate change.
ECCP Learning Series on Climate Security
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Ecosystems for Peace is a participatory collective of more than 1,200 individuals across more than 200 institutions and 5 continents, all with an interest in building better connections between environment, climate change, conflict and peace practice and policy. They represent UN agencies, community-based organisations, think tanks, academic institutions and more.

Throughout 2025, the Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) will host a learning series on climate and security, unpacking key concepts in climate security including vulnerability, anticipatory action and early warning, human security, risk, resilience, and much more. To root the discussions in contemporary policy and practice, the ECCP will invite key guest speakers from NATO, the EU, the OSCE and other security and climate institutions to shed light and build connections between siloed fields.

Noting significant shifts in global policy and priorities in 2025, this series aims to:

  1. Build a wide understanding of national security interests and approaches to climate change, from a wide variety of actors and perspectives, and
  2. Identify and create entry points for peacebuilding actors to engage with security institutions in meaningful ways.

The series will explore how the growing emphasis on hard security affects climate-related decision-making, where opportunities for collaboration exist, and how ECCP’s expertise can contribute to security sector discussions. Potential outputs could mirror or build on prior ECCP collaborative policy work, including policy briefs for UNFCCC COP28 and COP29, CBD COP16 and a collaborative, multi-lingual White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding.

adelphi at the ECCP Learning Series on Climate Security

Pre-Briefing & Introduction
Online

On 24 March 2025, Ecosystems for Peace organised a “pre-briefing” session which aimed to provide an introduction to key concepts on climate, peace and security. 

Raquel Munayer (adelphi) and Abigail Robinson (Continua) gave a 60-minute deep dive on climate security, laying out the foundation for future briefings.

Watch the session recording here.

This description was adapted from the Ecosystems for Peace website.