Welcome to your guide to the 2026 activities of the Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP)
This page hosts a round-up of ECCP activities, including a calendar with relevant dates & links.
It will be regularly updated throughout the year.
New to the community? Check out the Helpful Links section below.
What is the ECCP?
The Community of Practice (CoP) on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) is a global network that brings together individuals and institutions working on topics related to environment, climate, conservation, conflict, peace, governance, development, human rights, and humanitarian action. The ECCP offers structures for relationship-building, shared learning, and joint action in policy and practice, with an emphasis on exchange. The community cultivates a rich and fertile ecosystem of dialogue across topics, domains, and layers of the international system, nurturing connection between civil society, international and regional organizations, governments, and financial institutions.
The ECCP comes together in a few different ways.
Because ECCP members are based all over the world, our primary mode of coming together is online. The vast majority of our meetings are held on zoom.
Each month, we have a Monthly Meeting, which is an open space for networking and exchange. All are welcome; no preparation required.
There are different ongoing discussion groups that meet on a regular basis on specific topics. You can find more information on those groups below.
Any member can propose an online “briefing” on a specific topic, either proposing themselves or someone else as the presenter. Briefings typically last 1 hour, including about 20 minutes of presentation and 40 minutes of facilitated discussion. Email ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com with your ideas.
We also have a number of place-based chapters in places where there is a concentration of ECCP members. Each chapter strives to host at least one in-person meet-up per year. Learn more about chapters on this page.
The community works on ad hoc pop-up projects, such as this editable glossary of terms related to business, human rights, conflict, and environment. Additional projects will be linked here as they evolve.
And finally, our Community has an annual cycle for its very-own Community Fund. The purpose of the ECCP Community Fund is to provide financial support to specific projects within the Community of Practice initiated by community members. Learn more about the ECCP Community Fund on this page.
Ongoing discussion groups
There are currently six active discussion groups in the ECCP. Each group has a folder with meeting notes and other relevant documents, as well as a registration page to receive calendar invitations for related meetings:
Peace@COP Policy Working Group Folder / register for updates here
Peace@CBD Policy Working Group Folder (conflict-sensitive conservation) / register for updates here
Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security Policy Working Group Folder / register for updates here
Green Transition Policy Working Group folder / register for updates here
We also have two topical groups with ongoing notes and resources:
Decolonization Discussion Group / join this group by emailing ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com
Meetings are displayed on the calendar below.
Helpful links:
ECCP WhatsApp Groups: English, French, or Spanish
All are welcome to join the new free training in project management for environmental peacebuilding, hosted through the ECCP in the first half of 2026.
New to the intersection of environment, climate, change, conflict, and peace?
You can explore this training resource for locally-led action on climate, peace, and security.
We also recommend this collection of guidance materials for practitioners working on climate in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Review this toolkit for monitoring, evaluation, and learning on environmental peacebuilding.
Check out this resource round-up from 2025, which links to a wide range of relevant articles and toolkits.
And explore this free online course on conflict-sensitive conservation, which links to further materials.
If you’re still looking for more, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association Knowledge Platform has a massive repository, searchable by location, topic, and more.
ECCP events and meetings
This calendar will be updated regularly with dates & times for ECCP meetings. Discussion group meetings are usually scheduled one month in advance.