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BCSC 2021 Agenda:
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27 September 2021
Human Mobility, Climate Change
and Conflict: Identifying Sustainable
Responses (UNSSC)
BCSC 2021 Opening Session
Multilateral Momentum: An Agenda for Action
on Climate, Peace, and Stability
(MSC & adelphi)
28 September 2021
Food Insecurity, Climate Change and
Conflict Sensitivity: Identifying
Sustainable Pathways for
Peacebuilding (UNSSC)
Women, Peace, and Security’ and
Climate Change at the UN: Lessons-
Learned, Synergies, and
Opportunities (UNU-CPR, Berghof
Foundation & adelphi)
- closed session -
29 September 2021
Brown-bag Lunch:
The Climate Security Nexus in
Ethiopia (WFP & CGIAR)
Climate Change, Peace and Security:
Understanding Risk Through an
Integrated Lens (UNEP)
4 - 5:30 pm (CEST)
NATO’s Next Strategic Concept:
What Role for Climate Security?
(NATO)
- closed session -
30 September 2021
Climate Change: How Should the
European Union and Civil Society
Co-operate for Sustainable
Mediation Efforts?
(EPLO)
Environmental Degradation, and
Climate Change in the Colombian
Amazon (WWF)
Monitoring and Evaluation for
Climate Security Interventions
(ELI)
1 October 2021
All Systems Go: Integrating Climate Security
across the U.S. Government
(Wilson Center)
Making Sense of Climate
Data for Peacebuilding (PIK)
Climate Security Around the World:
Examples of Locally Informed Solutions
(CSEN)
4 October 2021
Building inclusive resilience to
climate-related security risks
(UNSSC & UNEP)
Moving from analysis to action:
How to Get Policy-makers
at Different Governance
Levels to Conflict Prevention Action
(IHE Delft & WPS Partnership)
5 October 2021
Climate Security Partnerships for Peace?
How UN, EU, and AU Could
Align Efforts and Missions:
The case of Somalia
(ZIF)
State of the Field:
Charting a Collective Agenda
for Gender and Climate
Security Research (GIWPS)
6 October 2021
Reducing Climate-driven Instability
and Conflict Over Land and Natural
Resources: What Role for Customary
and Informal Justice Actors? (IDLO)
Climate Security Scenarios for the Sahel:
An Interactive Exercise
(IMCCS)
- closed session -
Renewable Energy and MINUSMA
(Permanent Missions of Mali, France, Norway &
the United Arab Emirates to the UN &
Powering Peace)
7 October 2021
Learning from Climate Security
Practices and Bringing Them to Scale
(Clingendael Institute)
- closed session -
BCSC 2021 Closing Session
Comprehensive Security to Weather
the Storm (OSCE)
8 October 2021
Climate-related Security Risks as
Opportunity for Mediation? (EIP,
Berghof Foundation & adelphi)
UN General Assembly Stream
Climate, Peace, and Stability, Lessons Learned
from Sahel and Small Island Development States
(Denmark)
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