What does climate diplomacy look like in practice? What is its added value? And what are the challenges it is best suited to address? To find answers to these questions, the German Federal Foreign Office, supported by adelphi, organized a two-day conference called, “Climate Diplomacy in Pe
Representatives from international organisations such as the EU, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the United Nations (UN) as well as participants from over 30 countries discussed water resource management, global food security and the sea-level-rise, that threaten coastal areas and low-lying island states.
The conference was organized as part of the German Federal Foreign Offices’ initiative on Climate Change and Security, which has the objectives to advance related processes at the UN level, to build regional capacities, and to create and strengthen networks to foster pre-emptive approaches to climate security in order to avoid that climate change will aggravate or generate conflict potential.