In 2018, the Toda Peace Institute and the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Otago) organised a workshop on “Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Prevention, Management and the Enhancement of Community Resilience” in Auckland, New Zealand. This workshop resulted in the publication of the Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change Conflict and Peace in July 2019.

War is too important to be left to the generals, the former French statesman Georges Clemenceau famously said. You can say something similar about climate change. If we have any hope of tackling the growing climate emergency, governments can’t leave it just to environment ministries to come up with the solutions.

How could minimising material, water, and energy consumption in the EU contribute to conflict prevention? This policy brief explores unsustainable environmental footprints in relation to conflict risk — and what the EU can do about this.

The security dimensions of climate change and resource degradation affect military organisations’ operations. This policy brief outlines the nexus between climate change and natural resources on the one hand, and security on the other.

What are the implications of climate change on the policies of governmental institutions and non-governmental organisations? And how can they play a role in mitigating climate-related conflict risk?

Research on the causal link between climate and conflict is contested – or so it was. Experts, led by Stanford’s Katharine Mach, have concluded that changes in the climate have affected armed conflict.