Approach
Through advocacy, partnerships and convening, the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) works with partners to increase collaboration between global, regional and national decision-makers and stakeholders to harmonize climate action, peace and security policies, and scale up and improve access to climate finance in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
Sustained advocacy remains vital to keep the linkages between climate change, peace and security high on the agenda of relevant policy fora and ensure their integration into decision-making at all levels. The CSM supports efforts in this regard by organizing and participating in workshops, seminars and conferences, and preparing speeches, background notes, and analytical papers for senior UN officials. Understanding the developments in the broader policy discourse, including the voices from frontlines, helps CSM to bridge beyond its own institutions. The CSM intends to act as an advocate, facilitator and convener, enabling contact, exchange and new partnerships between relevant actors from the climate and peace and security spheres in order to climate-inform conflict prevention and sustaining peace policies, strategies and operations and make climate action work for sustaining peace. This function makes use of the evidence base consolidated through knowledge co-generation and management, including disseminating the knowledge products as well as turning knowledge into joint policy guidance.