BCSC 2024 at a glance
Read the conference summary here. Session recordings can be found in the session descriptions, in the sessions overview and on YouTube.
Who: High-level political actors, climate security experts, international organisations and practitioners. View the participants list here.
What: Since its inaugural edition in 2019, the annual Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) has become the global forum connecting governments, international organisations, experts, and practitioners working to promote interlinkages between different approaches within the climate and security agenda whilst also critically interrogating complex new challenges.
Agenda: View the agenda by clicking here.
When: 8 October 2024; Official side events took place on 7 and 9 October.
Side events on the 7th included a workshop on inclusion with a focus on youth and a workshop on how international and regional organisations can advance the climate, peace and security agenda in crisis management missions and peace operations.
On the 9th, a roundtable on African leadership on climate, peace and security ahead of COP29 followed by a reception was held as well as a roundtable on climate peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
Where: German Federal Foreign Office and livestreamed; Side events took place at different locations in Berlin.
Why: To promote, coordinate and advance concrete climate security approaches and initiatives to drive action and implementation efforts.
The sixth edition of BCSC explored how to secure a climate for peace. The conference examined why climate must be integrated into the entire conflict cycle. Through taking stock of best practice examples, it further advanced concrete climate security approaches and initiatives.
BCSC 2024 focused on:
- Linking climate risks and security objectives and identifying how the role of the security and defence sector can address this nexus;
- Building awareness and capacity to conduct and use climate security risk analysis and foresight assessments to enable holistic peace-building and stabilisation action;
- Examining climate change impacts and the entire conflict cycle from peace-making to post-conflict reconstruction.
Our 2024 Partners:
Organised by:
The German Federal Foreign Office
The German Federal Foreign Office has been working on climate diplomacy for many years, supporting the integration of climate-related security risks into its bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. Under the German UNSC presidency in 2011, the UN Security Council adopted its first statement acknowledging the risks of climate change for international peace and security. On 1 August 2018, Germany, together with the Pacific state Nauru, officially established the Group of Friends on Climate and Security in the United Nations.
adelphi research
adelphi research is an independent think tank and leading international public policy consultancy on climate, environment and development. Our 200-strong team of experts and specialists plays a key role in generating and promoting new ideas, shaping debates, building new strategies and setting agendas. We help to forge new paths towards a sustainable future, both by providing scientifically sound policy analysis and by working in dialogue with political and civil society actors and decision-makers.
Climate Diplomacy
The Climate Diplomacy initiative, a project by adelphi supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, explores the foreign policy dimension of climate change and climate policy, including different regional and thematic approaches to it. Its website also provides arguments for enhanced international cooperation and diplomatic engagement for climate in multi- and bilateral fora.
The Climate Diplomacy project includes support for bringing the topic of addressing climate fragility risks into different international fora. Despite the increasing salience of the topic of climate change and security, there is currently no single address to turn to for support and policy advice.