On 22 June 2018, the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini will convene a high-level event Climate, Peace and Security: The Time for Action in Brussels. The objective is to examine the climate-security nexus to identify approaches to address its growing challenge. The event will focus on two themes: the responsibility to prepare for climate-security risks and moving from early warning to early action.

On April 24, a meeting co-organised by PSI-Consortium partner the Center for Climate and Security in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Security, the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, IHE Delft and the Embassy of the Netherlands in the US organised an event to discuss climate and water-related risks and resilience initiatives.

A short and comprehensive analysis & summary of three crucial studies recently published by the World Bank (WB), the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) which prominently addressed the link between degradation of land, water stress and higher food prices with migration.

On 12 July 2018, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organising a conference on climate change and fragility in the Asia and Pacific region. It will look at the interlinkages among science, regional studies and business.

On Thursday, April 19th, 2018, a panel of experts was held by the Red Cross and the African Development Bank in Abuja, Nigeria. Invited to comment on the present situation in the Sahel as well as to present the past and current work of the various organizations invited.

Ce jeudi 19 avril 2018, se tenait un panel d’experts organisé par la Croix-Rouge ainsi que la Banque de Développement Africaine à Abuja au Nigéria. Avec pour thème « Impacts combinés du changement climatique et des conflits armés dans le Sahel », ce panel en diffusion live réunissaient des experts de haut niveau impliqués à l'échelle régionale. États des lieux et pistes de solutions sont explorées.

Where in the world will people’s lives be affected by water issues by the year 2050? What is the impact of the growing global population, further urbanisation and climate change on these water risks, the food supply and migration?

Les conflits locaux pour les ressources naturelles au Mali débordent sur d’autres régions et Ils ne sont pas toujours circonscrits ce qui crées le risque de conflits ailleurs. Pourtant, ceux-ci sont souvent traités séparément au lieu d’être envisagés de façon globale. Cette note de politique analyse les différents conflits locaux et régionaux liés à l’utilisation de ressources et leurs répercussions internes au Mali.

Le Mali est particulièrement vulnérable aux effets du changement climatique. Afn de réduire cette vulnérabilité, le nombre d’affrontements violents entre les différents utilisateurs des terres et d’augmenter la capacité d’adaptation des différents groupes, le gouvernement malien devrait envisager à promouvoir l’hétérogénéité ethnique, d’endosser le mode de vie pastorale, de renforcer une synergie positive entre les différents groupes, de créer un cadre unifé de gestion des ressources et de promouvoir une saine administration.

Security in the African continent is severely undermined by climate-related impacts such as droughts, floods and conflicts for resources. However, deep-seated ad-hoc approaches hinder a long-term perspective over the effects of these shocks on the continent's development. Aliou Dia, Africa Team Leader Climate Change and Energy at UNDP, stresses the need to mainstream climate security in national and regional agendas as a development issue.