A priority for the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) is capacity building to help strengthen the ability to advance prevention and sustaining peace in a climate-changing world. Jointly with partners, the CSM has developed a Toolbox to help foster a shared approach to the analysis of climate-related peace and security risks and shape integrated and timely responses.
The CSM launched this guidance package in 2020 to help the UN system develop a shared language and approach to those challenges, and address the dual need to better understand how climate, peace and security risks play out in various geographical contexts and what actors such as the UN can do to respond. More specifically, the Toolbox has been designed to help practitioners:
- Conduct integrated analysis of compound climate-related peace and security risks, applying a gender and social inclusion lens;
- Apply climate-smart and conflict-sensitive analytical tools and methods for data collection and analysis;
- Assess possible entry points for inclusive peacebuilding, conflict prevention and climate adaptation;
- Use and combine different types of qualitative and quantitative data for assessment.
The Toolbox, targeted at the United Nations system but available to all practitioners and the general public, contains four guidance documents available in English, Spanish and French.
