During the COP 22 conference Adelphi will organise a side event on 14 November 2016 in Marrakesh, from 10:30-12:00h at the EU Pavilion.
How to deal with the impact of climate change on peace and stability? What are key climate-fragility risks and how may integrated policy responses be designed? Initiatives such as the G7 Working Group on Climate and Fragility or the Planetary Security Initiative (PSI) have been starting to focus on this nexus. In addition, there are numerous initiatives at the regional level that are aiming at building resilience under challenging environmental, political and social conditions. This also includes the strategic level - the EU level, for example, acknowledges the role of climate security and resilience in the EU Global Strategy.
This side event brings together a selected group of policy-makers and experts to discuss relevant programmes and policies to strengthen resilience related to climate change and security. The panelists will also report on the state of play of their initiatives and on how adaptation, humanitarian aid and peacebuilding could be linked in order to integrate approaches to resilience building. The discussion should help to develop a deeper understanding of how resilience building potentials can be used to promote peace and stability and how international initiatives or strategic approaches such as the EU’s Global Strategy can contribute to this process.
Contributions to the discussion will be done by Peter Fischer (German Federal Foreign Office), Alexander Verbeek (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands), Mamadou Diakhité (NEPAD) and Ayan Mahamoud (IGAD). The discussion will be moderated by Dennis Tänzler (Adelphi).