Climate Security Learning Series
Priorities have shifted in 2025, and this learning series seeks to build understanding of national regional security approaches to climate change.
Throughout 2025, the Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) will host a learning series on climate and security, unpacking key concepts in climate security including vulnerability, anticipatory action and early warning, human security, risk, resilience, and much more. To root the discussions in contemporary policy and practice, the ECCP will invite key guest speakers from NATO, the EU, the OSCE, and other security and climate institutions to shed light and build connections between siloed fields.
Noting significant shifts in global policy and priorities in 2025, this series aims to:
Build a wide understanding of national security interests and approaches to climate change, from a wide variety of actors and perspectives, and
Identify and create entry points for peacebuilding actors to engage with security institutions in meaningful ways.
The series will explore how the growing emphasis on hard security affects climate-related decision-making, where opportunities for collaboration exist, and how ECCP’s expertise can contribute to security sector discussions. Potential outputs could mirror or build on prior ECCP collaborative policy work, including policy briefs for UNFCCC COP28 and COP29, CBD COP16, and a collaborative, multi-lingual White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding.
The series has been developed primarily for members of the ECCP Community of Practice, especially those unfamiliar with security institutions. While the series won’t be widely advertised, it will be open to the wider public, including non-members. The goal for each session is to have a somewhat smaller, more intimate number of attendees whose active work focuses on these issues.
Sessions will be held throughout 2025, beginning with a pre-briefing on 24 March. Subsequent sessions will be scheduled based on speaker availability.
This series is built to supplement the work of our ongoing Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security Policy Working Group. To learn more about that group, send us an email at ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com.
Who we are
We are a participatory collective of more than 1,200 individuals across more than 200 institutions and 5 continents, all with an interest in building better connections between environment, climate change, conflict, and peace practice and policy.
We represent UN agencies, community-based organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and more. We participate in a community of practice on environmental peacebuilding issues. We meet online and do not have formal membership requirements.
Join us by sending an email to ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com.
Right side: Art by Shar Tuiasoa for the White Paper
