COP29 | 11-22 November 2024 | Baku

At COP29, we have a shared opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of peace and conflict sensitivity in climate change negotiations.

This landing page is the online home of a a participatory collective of more than 120 individuals across more than 60 institutions and 5 continents, all with an interest in making climate change policy more peace responsive and conflict sensitive. It is not an official initiative of the UNFCCC or of any COP hosts.

Read our community’s policy recommendations for COP29:

On 23 October, the Peace@COP29 community hosted a webinar to unpack these policy recommendations in detail.

Watch the recording of the webinar here.

Learn more about conflict-sensitive climate action in practice here.

Events on peace & conflict sensitivity at COP29

Together with the Climate Security Mechanism, we’re compiling a list of related side events and activities at COP29. To add to this list, please contact aericksonpearson@gmail.com.

The Climate, Peace and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion will host events related to peace and conflict sensitivity each day of COP29! Learn more here.

12 November, 9-10h, WWF Panda Pavilion - Fragile Futures: Climate, Conflict and Environmental Risk, hosted by WWF

12 November, 13-14h, Food and Agriculture Pavilion - Scaling impactful food, land and water solutions in fragile and conflict-affected settings: The role of science-based agribusiness acceleration, hosted by IWMI and CGIAR

12 November, 14h30-15h, Press Conference 1 Area C - Press Conference: Press launch of UNHCR-led Report titled No escape: On the frontlines of climate change, conflict and displacement, hosted by UNHCR

12 November, 14h30-15h45, Water for Climate Pavilion - Declaration for Climate Relief Recovery and Peace: Building a Water Action Agenda, hosted by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in partnership with the Climate Centre

12 November, 15-16h30, UNDP Pavilion, Mainstreaming Climate, Peace and Security Perspectives in NDCs and NAPs: A Policy Consultation, hosted by UNDP

12 November, 17-18h, MR22 - Accelerating climate finance for resilient agrifood systems in fragile and conflict-affected countries, hosted by FAO

13 November, 10-11h, IOM Climate Change and Human Mobility Pavilion - Harnessing Peacebuilding Approaches to Unlock Climate Finance in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings, hosted by Interpeace

13 November, 13h15-14h45, Climate, Peace, and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion - Empowering the Most Vulnerable: Urgent Calls for Bridging the Climate Finance Gap, hosted by g7+ Secretariat and ODI

13 November, 16h30-17h45, Climate Mobility Pavilion - High-Level Session on Climate Mobility and Sustaining Peace

13 November, 18h30, Side Event Room 2 - Scaling up climate action in fragile states: what are the hurdles and how to overcome them? hosted by International Alert, Search for Common Ground, and Cordaid

14 November, 10-11h30, Saleemul Huq Action Research Exchange (SHARE) Hub Pavilion - Communities at the Forefront: Realities of Human Mobility Impacted by Climate Change & the Role of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage, hosted by Refugees International

15 November, 8h30-9h30, IGAD Pavilion - Harnessing sustainable power in fragile contexts

15 November, 9-10h30, Climate, Peace, and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion - Enhancing Climate Finance and Action for Early Recovery, Resilience and Adaptation in Conflict-Affected Countries in the MENA Region, hosted by ODI, FCDO and UNDP

15 November, 9-10h30, CGIAR Food and Agriculture Pavilion - South-South Cooperation on Climate, Peace and Security: Driving the Localization Agenda Through Scientific Evidence , hosted by Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, Zambia Ministry of Green Economy and the Environment, CCAD, MARN

Official Presidency Event - 15 November, 10-11h30, Conference Room Hirkan - High-level Panel on Climate and Peace: Enabling joint action to leave no one behind, hosted by the COP29 Presidency

15 November, 11-12h30, Climate Funds Pavilion - Climate finance for adaptation in fragile and conflict-ridden settings: lessons learned from the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Official Presidency Event - 15 November, 11h30-13, Conference Room Hirkan - High-level Roundtable – Network-building to strengthen peace and resilience in climate-vulnerable settings, hosted by the COP29 Presidency

15 November, 11-12h30, NGIC/UNDP Pavilion - The Gender, Climate and Security Nexus: Environmental Destruction in Conflict-Affected Settings and the Role of Women in Conservation and Restoration Efforts, hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) & The Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC)

15 November, 11h45-12h30, UAE Pavilion - Accelerating Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery, hosted by UAE and Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy

15 November, 12h30-14, Mediterranean Pavilion - The Climate, Peace and Security Nexus in the Med: Connecting the dots.

15 November, 13-14h, Iraq Pavilion - Environmental and Climate Justice for Green Growth in Iraq, hosted by UNDP and the Iraqi Ministry of Environment

15 November, 13h15-14h45 - Peace and Security in a Changing Climate: From Analysis to Action, a pledging event hosted by Climate Security Mechanism and the Group of Friends on Climate Security

15 November, 14-15, World Green Economy Organization Pavilion - Towards a Youth-Inclusive Climate, Peace and Security Agenda, hosted by CCCPA, FBA, SIPRI, and UNDP

15 November, 14h15-15h15, Climate Peace, and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion - No escape: On the frontlines of climate change, conflict and displacement, hosted by UNHCR, IDMC, CGIAR, and IMPACT

15 November, 14h30-15h30, IOM Pavilion, Leaving No One Behind? Towards Inclusive and gender-responsive Displacement Responses through addressing the climate-security nexus in Africa and the Middle East, hosted by IOM, CCCPA, and CGIAR

15 November, 15-16h30, SE2, Mugham Room, Advancing Progress on the Global Framework on Children, Youth, Peace and Climate Security, hosted by COP29 Presidency, COP28 Presidency, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, YOUNGO, Global Coalition on Youth, Peace, and Security (GCYPS), Somali Greenpeace Association, Peace Environment for Development

15 November, 15-16h30, Side Event Room 3 - Accelerating climate action and finance to frontline communities affected by fragility or conflict, hosted by WFP, FAO, UNICEF, UNDRR, and OCHA

15 November, 15h30-16h30, Azerbaijan Pavilion - Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace - Two Years of CRSP - Advancing Climate, Peace and Security in the COP Space: Lessons Learned and Way Forward, hosted by the COP27 Presidency, CCCPA, the AU Commission and UNDP

16 November, 11h00, NDC Partnership Pavilion - Climate Resilience, Peace and Security: Integrated solutions to bridge the implementation gap, hosted by adelphi, UNOPS, and Somalia

16 November, 16-17h30, Azerbaijan Pavilion - Unlocking Financing for Gender-responsive Climate Security and Peace, hosted by UN Women and Azerbaijan

16 November, 18h30 - What really makes us safe? Peace, climate finance and climate action in an existential time, hosted by the Quaker United Nations Office

18 November, 9h00, Climate, Peace and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion - Adapting in Adversity: The Role of Governance in Climate Adaptation, hosted by Mercy Corps

18 November, 11-12h30 - Financing Women and Youth-Led Businesses for Sustainable Growth in Fragile Settings, hosted by the Islamic Development Bank

18 November, 11-12h30, IGAD Pavilion - The Link Between Climate Shocks and Conflict Dynamics in South Sudan

18 November, 14-15h30, IGAD Pavilion - Weathering Conflict: Young People's Role in Climate Resilience and Conflict Prevention

18 November, 15-16h30, Side Event Room 9 - Measuring Climate Impacts Across the Cycle of Armed Conflicts, hosted by Ukraine, Ecoaction, and ZOI Environment Network

18 November, 16h45-18h15, Side Event Room 8 - Transparent military emissions reporting and the path to military decarbonisation, hosted by The Conflict and Environment Observatory, Slovenia and Green Wave

19 November, 11h30, Ukraine Pavilion - Restoring Nature, Building Peace: Environmental Reconstruction and Climate-Resilient Development of Ukraine, hosted by IKEM, EUETH, IFZO and Mistra Geopolitics

19 November, 15-16h, Humanitarian Hub - Enhancing community resilience towards the hunger-climate-conflict nexus – Moving from programming examples to systematic policy changes, hosted by Action Against Hunger and ADRA

20 November, 14h, IGAD Pavilion - What 'Works' at the Intersection of Climate and Conflict? A Regional Perspective, hosted by Mercy Corps

Who we are

We are a participatory collective of more than 120 individuals across more than 60 institutions and 5 continents, all with an interest in making climate change policy more peace responsive and conflict sensitive. We collaborated for Stockholm+50 in June 2022 and are proud to say that our work contributed to the inclusion of peace language into the outcome documents.

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.

Learn more in this article written by two community members.

Join us by sending an email to ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com.

Right side: Art by Shar Tuiasoa for the White Paper