The next episode “Climate and Peace: Opportunities for entry into climate-relevant peacebuilding” will soon be released on our SoundCloud page!

It will focus on the relationship between climate and peace and the importance of climate justice. How climate justice is to be understood and why peace and environmental protection are so essential to each other are questions that this episode seeks to answer. Although climate can become an obstacle to peace, it also opens the door for new cooperation opportunities between the most diverse actors. There are many ways of linking natural resources, renewable energies or climate change with peacebuilding, and both UNEP and Fastenopfer support projects that do so. In addition to challenges, this podcast also sheds light on completely new approaches, focusing on participatory peacebuilding.

Jonas Hinck of KOFF will talk to Silja Halle of UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, and Stefan Salzmann of Fastenopfer about the tension between climate, peace and social justice and how these issues arise in practice. The podcast will be facilitated by Hannah-Milena Elias. Our previous episode on Women, Peace & Security is still available here.