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Tarcila Zea Rivera, an Indigenous woman from Peru and director of Chirapaq, speaks at a COP30 side event focused on Indigenous women’s leadership in climate action and peacebuilding
UN Women / Rodrigo Herrera
- Indigenous Peoples
- Women, Peace and Security
Indigenous Peoples — around 476 million across 90 countries — are among the planet’s fiercest biodiversity guardians. And many live on the frontlines of conflict: 80 percent of armed conflicts globally are unfolding in…
Climate change continues to place severe pressure on vulnerable populations, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings, driving growing global attention to the Climate, Peace, and Security agenda (CPS). While…
Photo: UNDP Mali
- UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
In the tri-border area where Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger meet, temperatures are rising at 1.5 times the global average. Recurrent droughts devastate crops. Erratic rainfall patterns undermine pastoral systems. Land…
Funafuti island, Tuvalu – Photo: UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji, 2018
- UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Pacific Island countries are among those most affected by climate change. Rising sea levels, shifting rainfall patterns and increasing extreme weather events threaten land, livelihoods and cultural heritage across the region…
UNPOL Climate, Peace and Security Training in Torit Field Office, South Sudan - Photo: Lucas Destrijcker/UNMISS, 2025
- UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan
- DPO - Department of Peace Operations
In South Sudan, climate change is not an abstract threat but an everyday reality. Successive floods and droughts have uprooted families, destroyed livelihoods, and intensified competition over resources. According to the…
Delegation and representatives of UN agencies at Ambaissa reforestation site in Zabout Refugee Camp, Sila Province, Chad
l’ONU au Tchad
- UNOCA - United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa
The Informal Expert Group of members of the UN Security Council on Climate, Peace and Security (IEG CPS) conducted a six-day informal field mission to Chad from 7 to 12 December 2025. This second field visit, following the…
Tanya Merceron, Climate, Peace and Security Advisor, conducting community consultations during a CPS assessment in Côte d’Ivoire, July 2025.
UNOWAS
- UNOWAS - United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel
- UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan
- Women, Peace and Security
October 2025 marked twenty-five years since the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Amid rising polarization, escalating conflicts, and the intensifying impacts of climate change, urgent…
ODI Global / Joel Sheakoski
Belém, Brazil, 12 November 2025: At the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM), in partnership with the Group of Friends on Climate and Security and ODI Global, convened a…
Ms. Inger Andersen , Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, delivered the statement at the Security Council, 10035th meeting -Climate and security…
Photo: Jan Rottler / adelphi global
- Climate, Peace and Security Advisors
- Community of Practice on Climate, Peace and Security
As climate impacts deepen and the number of conflicts globally reach their highest levels since the Second World War, the links between climate change, peace and security have never been more urgent, or more evident. The…
Format: Two panels Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025 Duration: 90 minutes Time: 13:15 – 14:45 BRT Organisers: Climate Security Mechanism at the United Nations, with the Group of Friends on Climate and Security, and ODI Global…
As Germany prepares to host the Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2025, new evidence from Somalia shows how restoring degraded land can help reduce conflict. Backed by Germany, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the…