When African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa for the 2025 Africa Climate Summit, the message was loud and clear: Africa wants to reposition itself towards a leading role in global climate finance shifting from aid to investment. They argued that the continent should not be cast as a passive victim of climate change but as a driver of the next global climate economy. And the way to do that is by shifting from aid to investment. 

 

 

 

Senior Climate & Security Advisor at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan                                         

 

Article published in International Politics and Society (IPS), 12 September 2025.

Report published by the Council on Strategic Risks, August 2025. 

Article published by the Contemporary Security Policy, August 2025

On 5 June 2025, Hannah Lentschig, Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute and PSI Project Leader, participated in the 17th edition of The Hague Roundtable on Climate & Security, co-organized and hosted by the British Embassy in The Hague. 

A report published by Center for Climate & Security, August 2025

This article was originally published by the World Economic Forum, July 2025.

Article published by the Council on Strategic Risks, July 2025. 

Based on the chapter 'Climate Change, Environmental Peacebuilding, and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism' from the book