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.

Policy brief by Planetary Security Initiative, Energy Peace Partners and Stanley Center for Peace and Security, November 2024