The sixth Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC) 2024 explored how to secure a climate for peace and highlighted the importance of integrating climate into the entire conflict cycle from prevention, to peacemaking, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction.
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On 8 October, the climate security community of practice met in Berlin to discuss the most urgent and cutting-edge issue in climate and security today, to elaborate on integrating climate considerations into peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction, building capacity for climate security risk analysis, addressing climate-induced insecurity and ensuring sustainable peace outcomes.
Conference highlights:
- Linking national security, intelligence and human security interests is vital to building climate resilience and mitigating risks.
- While we have a lot of knowledge that is imperative for action, there is still a need for more nuanced and local analysis.
- There are still geographic blind spots in our knowledge, analysis and discourse. There needs to be a greater spotlight on regions like Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific and Asia moving forward.
With 16 sessions , the conference brought together a diverse range of high-level political actors, climate security experts, international organisations and practitioners at the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.