The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), spanning from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of Australia, contains around 36 countries and a population of approximately 2.5 billion. The IOR has been a critical crossroads of international trade for centuries and remains so.

Tessa Terpstra, a deputy director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, talks to PSI about her experiences of climate security in the MENA region and where she sees its' future.

Iraq's Growing Desertification Problem

  • Iraq
  • climate change adaptation
Dr. Rana Alfardan of Iraq's Southern Technical University writes on Iraq's growing problem with desertification and possible solutions to it.

Climate Security Practice Spotlight – Crops and Cows, the Marial Bai Peace Initiative

  • climate security
  • South Sudan
  • Climate security practice
South Sudan's already poor security situation has long been exacerbated by weather influenced farmer-herder conflicts. A community peace project involving VNG International shows how proper stakeholder engagment can help to sustain peace between farmers and herders, even as weather patterns are changing.
The long running MILF insurgency in the Philippines was in part aggravated by climate caused food insecurity. Measures by Kauswagan municipality, in cooperation with international NGOs to address the root causes of the conflict resulted in a significant reduction in violence.

Biden's Earth Day summit highlights the importance of climate security

  • climate security
  • Joe Biden
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Adaption
  • Climate Adaption
  • Climate resilience
The virtual gathering of over 40 world leaders and climate change stakeholders saw greater attention paid to the nexus of climate and security. Whilst limited multilateral solutions were espoused, the summit showed how the topic is slowly but surely becoming more mainstreamed in international relations.
A virtual analysis of Nigeria's farmer-herder conflict has been released by the International Crisis Group. It offers insights into the climatic backdrop of the conflict as well as the measures taken to resolve it.