Overview
Vision
To build a resilient future by empowering policymakers and experts to integrate climate policies and finance for sustaining peace in conflict-affected and fragile settings through capacity building and collaboration.
Key objectives:
Capacity Building: Strengthen the skills of policymakers, negotiators and experts to understand and implement climate policies and finance that support peacebuilding through targeted training and resources.
Community of Practice: Build a global, multidisciplinary network of stakeholders to encourage collaboration and innovation at the intersection of climate action and peacebuilding. Promote the sharing of best practices, expertise and networks among stakeholders to advance the climate, peace and security agenda globally.
Bridging Finance Gaps: Work towards addressing disparities in climate finance allocation and peacebuilding, focusing on conflict-affected and fragile settings.
Policy Integration: Support the development of policy frameworks that incentivize investments with co-benefits for both climate action and peace.
Countries suffering conflict, crisis and insecurity often bear the brunt of the most severe climate impacts yet receive disproportionately low levels of climate finance. Addressing this disparity, climate financing mechanisms, supported by appropriate policies, should incentivize investments in adaptation and mitigation efforts that yield co-benefits for peace and security in fragile settings.
The COP27 Presidency's ‘Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace (CRSP)’, the first-ever initiative of its kind to be launched by a COP presidency addressing the climate, peace and development nexus, and the COP28 Presidency's ‘Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery, and Peace’ demonstrate growing global attention to the climate, peace and security nexus . As momentum builds there is a need to strengthen capacities among policymakers, negotiators, and experts to ensure that such efforts translate into tangible results.
The Climate, Peace, Security Experts Academy works closely with the UN Climate Security Mechanism, COP Presidencies, regional organizations from the Global South and Member States from all global regions to advance capacity development, knowledge exchange and building networks on climate policy, financing and sustaining peace. The Academy offers training tailored for policymakers, negotiators from national delegations, representatives from regional organizations and policy experts working on climate and peacebuilding, and the financing of both. Focusing on conflict-affected and fragile settings, it draws upon leading expertise on policy and financing to respond to the growing interest and demand for understanding how climate action and finance can contribute to sustaining peace. The academy is building a robust Community of Practice informing future multidisciplinary efforts.
The Climate Policies and Finance for Sustaining Peace - Capacity Building Network was launched at COP29 under the Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub. The Network represents the first and largest global platform of its kind, focused on building capacity among policymakers, climate negotiators, and experts to integrate climate policies and financing for sustaining peace.