The Climate Security Community

Bula and welcome to the Climate Security Community of Practice!

This space is the online information sharing, resources and communication platform for regional stakeholders across the Pacific in relation to climate security. The aim of this room is to raising awareness on climate security and engage with regional stakeholders across the Pacific to take part in an effective and informed dialogue on climate security, thereby providing an inclusive approach to building resilience.

Material, updates and developments from the Climate Security in the Pacific project will be shared regularly, as well as events, webinars and discussions on climate security.

Background:

While climate change does not cause violent conflict, in and of itself, it can through its interaction with other social, political, and economic factors have negative impacts on international peace and security. The pathways through which these risks manifest are highly contextual and determined by the interaction between climatic hazards, exposure, and, most importantly, the vulnerability and coping capacity of states and societies. In the Pacific, climate change has the potential for a myriad of cascading fragility and instability risks.

These will affect men, women, and youth differently, and vary across the region both according to timeframes under consideration and depending on the country contexts. A multi-dimensional approach is needed to find sustainable solutions.

This includes recognition of the importance of effective, accountable central and local governance; equitable management of and access to natural resources and ecosystem services; availability of climate-resilient alternative livelihoods; resilience-building of individuals, communities, and institutions, and the peaceful and safe management of migration and displacement.

Such an approach can be the catalyst for collective efforts to address climate change in conjunction with other potentially destabilizing factors, and ultimately facilitate a systemic shift from crisis response to coordinated risk prevention, early warning, and effective adaptation.

Please find additional resources, data and useful material on climate security in the "Background Documents" box.

You are welcome to provide comments, ideas, and inputs on climate security and feel free to share this space with your network!