Geneva landscape: Climate Change
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Projects, programs, and activities
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Climate Change as a Peace and Justice Concern
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QUNO approaches climate change as a peace and justice concern. We advocate for the integration of human rights-based approaches within climate policy to create more legitimate, peaceful and sustainable climate policy, benefitting people and the planet, and receiving more public support. Human rights-based approaches integrate biodiversity protection, gender, youth, Indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights, and meaningful participation in decision-making, which are all peace-building elements.
Quaker United Nations Office (HQ: Geneva and New York; 1 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Project partners: Unknown
Contact point: Lindsey Cook
Global
Timeline of project: Ongoing
Sectors: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, Human Rights
Additional element: Advocacy
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Climate Change, Water and Energy in the Middle East: The complicated story in five maps
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The five maps in this collection tell the complicated story of the Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus in the Middle East. Cartographer Matthias Beilstein’s maps, crafted with Swiss precision, are meant for map-lovers, aficionados and others who are simply interested in geography or geopolitics in one of the world’s climate change and security hotspots.
Zoï Environment Network (HQ: Geneva; 2 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Project partners: Unknown
Contact point: Otto Simonett
Middle East
Timeline of project: Unknown
Sectors: Peacebuilding, Environment, Climate Change
Additional element: Communications
Climate and Peace Investment Fund
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The Climate and Peace Investment Fund (CPIF) is a blended finance investment vehicle designed to support climate resilience and build sustainable peace in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). The fund will mobilize public and private capital to invest (debt) in local financial institutions, which in turn provide financing to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) working in climate-relevant sectors.
Project partners: Incofin, Peace Dividend Initiative, Nordic Development Fund
Contact point: Richard Bailey
Global
Timeline of project: Ongoing
Sectors: Climate Change, Peacebuilding
Additional element: Private sector integration
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In its first phase (2017-2022), the partnership delivered global, national, and local analysis of climate-security risks, successfully tested integrated programming approaches to resilience-building in conflict-affected and fragile settings and strengthened institutional capacities to address climate-related security risks through training, and technical support. Phase 2 (2022-2027) aims to address critical gaps in data and capacity for analysis, policy formulation and intervention design in order to help scale preventive action on climate-related security risks to the transboundary and regional levels, where critical ecosystems are shared by communities and States.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (HQ: Geneva; 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Project partners: EU
Contact point: Silja Halle
International and region/community-specific:
Timeline of project: 2017-2027
Sectors: Climate Change, Environment, Peacebuilding
Additional element: Knowledge hub development
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EU-UNEP Partnership on Climate, Environment, Peace & Security
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Mainstreaming Conflict Sensitivity into the NAbSA Operational Framework: Strengthening the Resilience of Climate Adaptation in Fragile Contexts
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Inclusive Governance of Natural Resources for Conflict Prevention at the Burkina Faso-Ivory Coast border
NAbSA, a Global Affairs Canada initiative, supports 19 projects in 30 countries (27 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa) to develop a gender-responsive framework for nature-based solutions with biodiversity benefits. IUCN is currently working to integrate conflict-sensitivity into the operational framework.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (HQ: Gland; 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Project partners: Global Affairs Canada
Contact point: Veronica Ruiz
International / Africa
Sectors: Conservation, Development
Additional element: Nature-based Solutions (NbS)
eEARTH monitoring dashboard
Conflicts related to the use of resources (water and land) as well as pressure on protected areas are significant in the cross-border regions between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. The project identifies, builds or rehabilitates, in a climate change-appropriate manner, social and economic infrastructure around which conflicts over natural resources arise, while providing corresponding services. This is supported by implementing measures and mechanisms to promote social cohesion, conflict prevention and resolution, particularly conflicts related to the use of natural resources. This approach helps ensure peaceful access to natural resources in the region and mitigate and reduce conflicts related to resource use and cohabitation within cross-border communities.
Interpeace (HQ: Geneva, 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate)
Contact point: Menna Waguih
Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Sectors: Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation; climate change
Additional element: Inclusive dialogue
The Early Action & Risk Tracking Hub (eEARTH) is an initiative by the International Crisis Group that combines advanced data analytics with deep regional expertise to analyse and anticipate resource-related conflict. Developed through extensive work on climate-security risks in the Horn of Africa, our platform is designed to detect signs of instability, whether from scarcity or abundance, before they escalate.
International Crisis Group (HQ: Brussels, 1 in Geneva working on HDP-climate)
Contact point: Margaux Pimond
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
Sectors: Conflict impact
Additional element: Data and analysis
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Risk Index for Climate Mobility
The Risk Index for Climate Mobility (RICD) is an operational foresight tool developed by the Climate Mobility Innovation Lab (CMIL) in collaboration with a network of government, scientific, academic and other partners through a co-creation modality. Detailed information on the objectives, methodology, and approach is available at the link below.
IOM (HQ: Geneva; 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Contact point: Helena de Jong
Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu and now rolled out to South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia
Sectors: Climate; Migration
Climate Catalytic Fund
As a part of IOM’s Climate Mobility Innovation Lab (CMIL) efforts to help bridge the gap between data, finance, and action, the Climate Catalytic Fund (CCF), a blended finance mechanism, mobilises rapid and flexible match funded grants to translate data-driven risk insights from the Risk Index for Climate Displacement (RICD) into concrete, locally led adaptation action.
IOM (HQ: Geneva; 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Contact point: Helena de Jong
Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu and now rolled out to South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia
Sectors: Climate; Migration
Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group (GeCCco)
GeCCco, the Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group, gathers civil society organizations working in Geneva to bring forward the human rights issues raised by climate change and to introduce these climate change issues in the work of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Bodies. What started as a regular coffee meeting has developed into a more structured discussion, sharing of views, and launching ground for joint initiatives.
Contact point: Yves Lador
Sectors: Human rights; Climate
Additional element: Advocacy
Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group
Multi-level approaches for peace in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
The Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group (HR&CC WG) was formalized 2010 to bring together civil society advocates and experts seeking to strengthen the recognition of the human rights dimension of climate change, and to secure adequate legal remedies for those impacted. While the WG has focused primarily on strategizing around the UNFCCC process, members also use it to share other relevant updates and to convene conversations on other relevant themes and processes.
Contact point: Yves Lador
Sectors: Human rights; Climate
Additional element: Advocacy
In Nigeria’s Middle Belt, HD works to prevent and resolve violent conflicts over natural resources exacerbated by climate change by facilitating inclusive dialogue processes that bring together diverse stakeholders from conflicting groups and ethnic communities, including women, young people, traditional authorities and religious leaders. The project also supports local peace infrastructures and builds capacity among stakeholders to prevent resource-based conflicts. This approach has resulted in the development, signing and implementation of community-level natural resource-sharing agreements that incorporate provisions on climate adaptation measures.
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HQ: Geneva; 2 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Contact point: Lina Hillert
Nigeria: Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa States
Sectors: Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation; Environment; Climate
Additional element: Mediation