What's the Planetary Security Initiative (PSI)?
Climate change affects human security and can increase conflict risk. This issue gained prominence on high level international diplomatic and security policy agendas. Yet still more needs to be done to address risks on the ground. The Planetary Security Initiative (PSI) aims to catalyze action in affected contexts. PSI sets out best practices, strategic entry points and new approaches to reducing climate-related risks to conflict and stability, thus promoting sustainable peace in a changing climate.
The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the PSI in 2015, operated by a consortium of leading think tanks. With the focus on four major planetary security conferences, the initiative now redirected its focus from awareness creation to applicable action after successfully supporting the efforts to place climate-related security risk at the centre of the global foreign policy and defence stage. PSI is sponsored by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence and acts as a global knowledge hub.
The objectives of the PSI are to:
- Enhance political involvement in climate-security.
- Strengthen the knowledge-policy interface by consolidating a global, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary community of practice.
- Develop and promote policies and good practices to support governments, the private sector and implementing agencies better securing peace in regions affected by climate change.
- Operate as a permanent platform for international cooperation on planetary security.
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The Planetary Security Initiative is currently implemented by Clingendael Institute - The Hague.
