Water tenure considers all types of water uses, including those that are not formally recognized by law. A major challenge to improving sustainable water use...
The Escazú Agreement is a legal instrument for environmental protection, but it is also a human rights treaty. Its main beneficiaries are the people of the...
This paper lists existing guidance notes on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in conflict contexts, as well as outlines key lessons to successfully implement NbS in...
The intensity and visibility of wartime environmental damage in Ukraine has helped focus attention on who is collecting data, and for what purpose. On the...
This practical toolkit provides guidance for implementing partners, USAID staff, and other stakeholders who support the Global Water Strategy and White House...
The COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace was formally launched at COP28 on 3 December to focus on climate finance for highly vulnerable...
As exclusion is a key driver of climate vulnerability, insecurity and conflict, climate action for peace can only happen in conjunction with a focus on...
On 6 October, the climate security community of practice met in Berlin to examine the most urgent and cutting-edge issues in climate and security today, to...
This document is a result of the work of high level representatives of the Governments of the Republic of Kenya and the Federal Republic of Germany in...
Fires pose a major risk to the landscape of the South Caucasus region. With climate change, this risk will likely increase as temperatures become warmer...
The 2023 United Nations World Water Development Report on Partnerships and Cooperation assesses the nature and role of partnerships and cooperation among...
The war in Syria has now entered its 12th year, leaving a long-lasting humanitarian impact on the country as hundreds of thousands of people have been killed...
The recent recognition by the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a...
The fourth Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) 2022 highlighted the importance of multilateral cooperation, inclusivity and locally-informed action to...
Today we face the double, interlinked emergencies of human-induced climate change and the loss of biodiversity, threatening the well-being of current and future...
Conflicts in the Sahel region are mounting. The Inner Niger Delta, located in the Sahelian zone of central Mali at the crossroads between lusher south Mali and...
Perhaps more than any other area of climate and environmental issues, reaching a binding global commitment to forests has remained elusive. As a result, the...
This report discusses the possible effects of climate change on issues at the core of European foreign, security, and development policy – livelihoods, food...
The State of the River Nile Basin Report (SOB) 2021 for the Nile River provides a knowledge basis for transboundary water resource management. Building on the...
Trade is a key lens to observe the dynamics associated with geopolitics of decarbonisation. For the European Union (EU) in particular, trade is a central...