Geneva landscape: Global projects, programs, and activities
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Projects, programs, and activities
Environment and Security course
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This is an online learning course offered from 3-15 December 2026. It is a unique mix of top-down lectures and discussions where participants engage with interdisciplinary experts and develop strategies to place the environment–security agenda firmly on decision-making tables. The goal is to explore innovative approaches that use environmental cooperation not as a secondary policy issue, but as a crucial instrument for global peace and security.
Geneva Centre for Security Policy (HQ: Geneva; 1 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Contact point: Anna Brach
Sectors: Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation; Environment
Additional element: Learning
Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group (GeCCco)
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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
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Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group
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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
Climate Change as a Peace and Justice Concern
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Risk Index for Climate Mobility
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)
Contact point: Lindsey Cook
Sectors: Human rights; Climate; Peacebuilding, peacemaking, & cooperation
Additional element: Advocacy
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Climate Catalytic Fund
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Regional Responses to Climate Displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa (RE2CLID) and Regional Responses to Climate Displacements in Southern Africa and Indian Ocean countries (RE2CLID)
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
Location: Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu and now rolled out to South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia
Sectors: Climate; Migration
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
Location: Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu and now rolled out to South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia
Sectors: Climate; Migration
The RE2CLID programme seeks to enhance the resilience, self-reliance, and protection of Displacement-Affected Communities living in areas at risk of disasters, environmental degradation, and other adverse impacts of climate change. The programme operates across two highly vulnerable sub-regional clusters, including the Southern Africa and South-West Indian Ocean Cluster, covering Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Comoros. The objective of the programme is to improve overall capacity to respond to and increase overall resilience to disaster displacement at regional level through strategic interventions regionally, nationally and locally. The action is framed around three main objectives: Strengthen systems that enable to avert, minimize and address displacement, and promote effective adaptation and resilience of communities most exposed to displacement risks due to climate hazards; Improve the governance and management of natural resources and agricultural land use in ways that create sustainable livelihoods for displaced and host communities; Help population displaced attain climate resilient durable solutions and enable social cohesion in host and return communities.
IOM (HQ: Geneva; 3 in Geneva working on HDP-climate related projects)
Contact point: Helena de Jong
Location: The programme operates across two highly vulnerable sub-regional clusters, including the Southern Africa and South-West Indian Ocean Cluster, covering Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Comoros.
Sectors: Climate; Migration
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