The fraught humanitarian situation in the lake Chad basin is a complex problem with undervelopment, violent conflict and environmental crisis all playing a role. Climate change is a factor in creating livelihood stress which contributes to violent extremism. In a strategy to address the situation the Lake Chad Basin Commission and the African Union implement a number of climate security practices to build community resilience and foster peace.

The MINUSMA UN intervention in Mali has been forced to confront the climatic causes of much of the violent unrest in Mali as unpredictable weather patterns and land stress begin to take their toll. To maintain the peace, MINUSMA has implemented a number of climate security practices alongside their traditional peacekeeping operations.

On the 8th May 2021, the European Union and India held a closed-door virtual summit, amidst a devastating second wave of COVID-19 that is currently crippling India.

A new report from the international organisation for migration sets out the dangers that climate change poses to human security in Somalia through its ability to displace people from their livelihoods. It sets out a number of recommendations to integrate these people in society and adapt to the ill effects of climate change.

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.

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