Climate security impacts in the UK have a direct impact on the EU. Not only will many EU countries face similar climate challenges as the UK, but the Union also has very close economic, military and political relations with the UK.

In November 2024, the Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE) announced its first publication on climate change and security.

In Somalia, climate change disproportionately disrupts agricultural and pastoral livelihoods, driving harmful practices, such as resource overexploitation, which exacerbate conflicts.

This paper describes the results of a foresight tabletop exercise looking at the security implications of climate change in Big Ocean Small State (BOSS) islands in the Indian Ocean Region.

The Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment (ACRA) is the first comprehensive study of climate security across Africa. It identifies climate security pathways across the African Union’s five regions and explores responses, good practices and recommendations.

Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. Warming of the atmosphere, oceans and land – driven by human activity – is causing climate variations and extremes all over the world, with over three billion people living in places that are highly vulnerable to climate change.

The Independent High Level Expert Group (IHLEG) on Climate Finance has been supporting the deliberations on the climate finance agenda under successive COP Presidencies since COP26. It has been tasked to help develop recommendations to encourage and enable the public and private investment necessary for delivery of the commitments of the Paris Agreement.

This GCSP policy brief explores how collaboration on shared resources between Armenia and Azerbaijan could foster regional stability and peace amid the looming impacts of climate change.

Recent weeks have borne witness to tragedy and destruction on a grand scale. The summer season in Europe concluded with severe forest fires in the Balkans, and has now given way to erratic and intense rainfall that has caused severe flooding in Central Europe and most devastatingly in Spain where hundreds are presumed dead, and recovery efforts are still underway.