Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP)
Community Activities: 2025
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Policy working groups.
Since 2022, this community has been home to a number of policy working groups. These groups come together to outline shared priorities in multilateral and/or national policy processes, draft shared policy priorities and recommendations, and plan joint action.
In 2025, the community grew from two to four policy working groups: Peace@COP30 (Climate Change), Peace@CBD (Biodiversity & Conservation), Environment, Peacebuilding, & Security, and Green Transition.
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Connection and learning.
Over 2025, activities focused on fostering connection between members, as well as shared learning. This community was built on the philosophy that everyone has something to teach and something to learn, and further, the process of learning together helps to build relationships and trust.
See below for a calendar of online and in-person activities.
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ECCP Community Fund.
For the first time, our community has introduced a modest Community Fund. Members have the opportunity to propose ideas that align with the ECCP’s mission and certain ideas will receive modest funding. The goal of this fund is to support the work of community members, build capacity, and strengthen trust across the community.
You can find the community fund page linked in the top navigation menu.
There were 4 different policy working groups active in the community this year.
Each group sets its own agenda and goals. Each group generally meets once per month. And each group has flexible membership — just come and go as you are able.
Here are the notes from our 2025 Policy Planning Meeting.
The four groups are:
Peace@COP30 - This group looks at multilateral climate change policy through the UNFCCC. Find notes and updates from this group linked here. The group’s public-facing webpage is here.
Peace@CBD - This group looks at multilateral biodiversity & conservation policy. In 2024, it looked at the CBD (Convention on Biodiversity). In 2025, reviewed progress on the CBD, but largely focused on the World Conservation Congress. Read more here.
Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security - This was a new group created in January 2025, exploring national security processes in countries of interest to group members. Find notes and updates from this group linked here. The group’s Climate Security Learning Series is linked here.
Green Transition - As of October 2025, a policy working group focused on the green transition was created. You can explore the group’s work in this folder here.
You can learn more about the historical work of ECCP’s policy working groups by clicking on the “Policy” tab in the top navigation of this website.
There are so many ways to meet each other and learn together.
2025 kicked off with a Community Action Planning Meeting. At that meeting, community members outlined their priorities for the year, which included building connections outside the ECCP, piloting different ways of coming together, meeting up in person, and a number of specific and concrete subtopics for collaborative exploration.
The calendar at the bottom of this page provides a helpful overview of various working group meetings, briefings, and other events. Events and conversations throughout 2025 included:
Our traditional ECCP Monthly Meetings, a space for open networking.
A briefing series on military and security sectors actors & climate change.
A small peer group meeting over the course of two months to explore topics related to major funding challenges in 2025.
And finally, 8 in-person meet-ups in communities on 3 continents.
Information about meetings and events mentioned above is visible on the calendar below.
In 2025, we introduced an ECCP Community Fund.
For the first time, our community introduced a modest Community Fund. Members had the opportunity to propose ideas that aligned with the ECCP’s mission and receive modest funding. Members also had the opportunity to contribute to the fund. The goal of this fund is to support the work of community members, build capacity, and strengthen trust across the community. It will be replenished and continued in 2026.
The first cycle of applications ran from 1 April to 15 May. Learn more about the community fund here.
2025 ECCP In-Person Meet-Ups
ECCP members around the world collaborated to convene in-person meet-ups in 2025. They were held:
9 September, 4-7pm ET — Washington, DC
16 September, 5:30-7:30pm — Nairobi, Kenya
14 October, 12:30-2:30pm CET — Geneva, Switzerland
24 October, 9am-1pm CET — Berlin, Germany
11 November, 3:30-5pm CET — The Hague, The Netherlands
11 November, 4-5:30pm UK time — London, United Kingdom
20 November, 3-4pm local — Juba, South Sudan
2 December, 5-7pm Nairobi time - Nairobi, Kenya
If you’d like to host a meet-up in your area in 2026, please email ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com!
ECCP 2025 Calendar
This calendar will be updated regularly with dates & times for ECCP meetings.
Interested in volunteering for the community?
Volunteers are welcome to engage on and lead the projects that interest them! In 2024, volunteers led the Peace@COP29 and conflict sensitivity working groups.
In 2025, volunteers worked on an effort to map out the community, lead in-person meet-ups, translate documents into other languages, and co-host working groups. Thank you to each and every member for sharing their time and talent with us.