The Planetary Security Initiative Overview of Climate Security Practices
Climate Security Practices (CSPs) are tangible actions implemented by a (local or central) government, organisation, community, private actor or individual to help prevent, reduce, mitigate or adapt (to) security risks and threats related to impacts of climate change and related environmental degradation, as well as subsequent policies (PSI climate security practices report, 2021).
PSI is collecting and analysing climate security practices worldwide. Are you aware of a climate security practice not mentioned here? Then submit the information by filling in this form or contact us at psi@clingendael.org
Dark orange: several climate security practises implemented in one place (see table below)
Light orange: one or two climate security practises implemented in place (see table below)
|
Title |
Actors |
Country of Implementation |
Type |
Year of Implementation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aarhus University & partners | Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal |
Climate adaptation and resilience with a spin-off for peace and security |
2010-2015 | |
| Weather-index insurance | CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems & International Water Management Institute | India | Bolstering disaster risk reduction for extreme weather | 2017-2019 |
| Good Water Neighbours Project | EcoPeace Middle East | Jordan, Israel and Palestine |
Dialogue and cooperation on shared scarce natural resources, as part of peacebuilding effort |
2001-Present |
| Peace Renewable Energy Credits | Energy Peace Partners, Nuru, 3Degrees, Microsoft | Democratic Republic Congo |
The financial mechanism for investment in sustainable energy in fragile countries |
2020-Present |
| Inter Collectivite du Sourou | Netherlands Embassy, CARE Mali, local communities | Mali |
The governance structure for inclusive natural resource management and stability |
2017-Present |
| 3S Initiative | 3S Initiative | Africa |
Investments, rural job creation, agroecological farming |
2017-Present |
| Juba Peace Agreement | Sudan Transitional Government, the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), Minni Minawi’s Sudan Liberation movement | Sudan | Natural resource management included in the peace agreement | 2020 |
| French Defence Forces | French Ministry of Defence | France and abroad |
Natural resources in theatres of military operation and efforts to reduce local tensions |
2016-Present |
| Feed the Future | USAID |
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda |
Building resilience through improving agricultural production and markets. | 2012-Present |
| Power your life | Solar Now | Uganda and Kenya |
Solar energy solutions |
N/A |
| UNSOM Drought Operations Coordination Center | United Nations | Somalia | Institutionalizing climate-related security risks in the UN mission | 2016-Present |
| Climate change and security risks | UNEP, EU, Adelphi | Sudan, Nepal |
Strengthening resilience to climate security risks |
2017-2021 |
| Partnering with NASA to find solutions from the sky | Mercy Corps | Kenya | Adaptation to climate change for small-holder farmers | 2019 |
| The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative | United Nations World Food Programme | Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Zambia |
Policy guidelines on solutions to address food insecurity caused by climate change |
2011-Present |
| Environmental Peacebuilding | Mercy Corps | Nigeria |
Environmental peacebuilding |
2019 |
| Powering Peace | Energy Peace Partners, The Stimson Center | DRC |
The sustainable energy use of missions |
2018 |
| Peace Centers for Climate and Social Resilience | Haramaya University | Ethiopia |
Training, peacebuilding, dialogues |
2014 |
| PEACE III | Mercy Corps and Pact | Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda |
Peacebuilding including environmental factors |
2014-2019 |
| Ending GBV and Achieving the SDGs | UNDP | Uganda |
Fostering resilience, with an integrated gender lens |
2020 |
| The Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme | FAO, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) | Somalia, Sudan and South-Sudan | The building of resilient livelihoods and food systems which contribute to sustainable localized peace. | 2019-2023 |
| Project for land reclamation efforts towards pastoral usage and in conservation areas | Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency, Government of Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso | Pastureland reclamation with emphasis on climate resilience and sustainability. Goals include conflict reduction between farmers and pastoralists. |
2018-2022 |
| Colombian Peace Process | Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombian Government, Norwegian Government, Cuban Government | Colombia | A peace deal that ends decades-long guerilla war. Incorporates climate protection mechanisms and environmental safeguards. | 2016-present |
| Kauswagan From Arms to Farms Project | Kauswagan Municipality, VNG International, Philippine Army, the Agricultural Training Institute and several other NGOs and CSOs. | Philippines | A local level project that focuses on allieviating climate related food insecurity, reintegrating ex-combatants and builiding trust between communities. | 2010-present |
| Marial Bai Peace Initiative | VNG International, 3 South Sudanese State Governments, Tribal Chiefs and Communities | South Sudan | A peace initiative that establishes cattle migration regulation along with dispute and compensation mechanisms. Reduces climate impacted farmer-herder conflicts. | 2016-present |
| MINUSMA Climate Security Practices | MINUSMA | Mali | Various different projects have been implemented as part of the UN intervention into Mali in order to adress some of the underlying climatic causes of the conflict. | 2013-present |
| The Lake Chad Regional Stabilisation Strategy | African Union, Lake Chad Basin Commission, International Donors | Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria | A strategy, involving a host of climate security practices, that seeks to provide livelihood security for millions of people and so lessen conflict and food stress. | 2018-present |
| Resilience in Somalia | Somali government, UNSOM, International Donors | Somalia | Safety net programmes and adaptation like dam building that seek to secure livelihoods and prevent extremist recruitment | 2012-present |
| Cross Border Cooperation in the Greater Karamoja Cluster | UN FAO, IGAD, local groups, regional governments | Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda | Cross border cooperation including natural resource sharing and animal health initiatives that build trust between communities at risk of conflict and concurrently build overall resilience | 2013-present |
| Preventing Radicalisation in Kidal | MINUSMA, UN | Mali | A community anti-radicalisation programme that seeks to bolster climate threatened livelihood security and so prevent radicalisation | 2021 |
| Improving Security and Climate Resilience in Fragile Contexts through the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus - "FREXUS" | GIZ, EU | Mali, Chad and Niger | An integrated approach that works with communities facing natural resource conflict in order to develop a natural resources convention and a path for sustainable development | 2019-present |
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Environmental Peacemaking in Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger border region |
European Institute of Peace (EIP), TrustWorks Global, Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate of Defence | Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger | An 18 month project implementing environmental peacemaking in the Liptako Gourma region | 2022-2023 |
PSI is collecting and analysing climate security practices worldwide. Are you aware of a climate security practice not mentioned here? Then submit the information by filling in this form or contact us at psi@clingendael.org