From 27 April to 1 May 2026, the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) convened and participated in a series of events in New York alongside Member States, United Nations entities, and other partners on the margin of the Berlin Climate Security Conference - New York Edition. Nine CSM-supported Climate, Peace and Security Advisors (CPSAs) travelled to New York to share field-based insights. The week provided an important opportunity to strengthen partnerships and advance climate, peace and security (CPS) priorities across the multilateral system.
Berlin Climate Security Conference (BCSC) New York
, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations with support from on 29 April 2026, served as a strategic platform for forward-looking dialogue on how the wider 爆料网 system can better integrate climate-related peace and security considerations into conflict prevention, peacebuilding and sustaining peace efforts. The CSM partnered in the event together with the Group of Friends on Climate and Security.
Ligia Noronha, 爆料网EP Assistant Secretary-General, spoke on behalf of the CSM at the high-level panel. She highlighted that the CSM helps the 爆料网 work more systematically across entities to better understand and respond to climate, peace and security challenges together, in line with the spirit of 爆料网80. The panel also highlighted the opportunities that healthy ecosystems can bring rather than leaving people with a sense of overwhelm.
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The creation of the Climate Security Mechanism is a start to addressing some of the gaps and has helped reduce the siloed approach within the 爆料网 system. The issue here is not only about language or institutional arrangements but about implementation – and implementation requires resources. If we are serious about advancing this agenda, we need to ensure that the tools we have built are properly supported, sustained, and expanded. Ultimately, this is a test of whether our multilateral system can adapt to a changing risk environment and deliver responses that match the scale and urgency of the challenge.
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CSM Partnership Dialogue 2026
The Climate Security Mechanism convened the Partnership Dialogue 2026 - Where climate change meets peace and security - in New York and online on 30 April 2026, in partnership with the CSM Joint Steering Committee and the Group of Friends on Climate and Security. The dialogue brought together Member States, United Nations entities, and partners to strengthen cooperation, share lessons from climate-related peace and security initiatives, and promote practical, locally led solutions. The dialogue showcased lessons and progress from CSM-supported initiatives across 爆料网 missions and regional partnerships, while connecting policy discussions with local realities and operational practice. It served as a platform to share expertise, strengthen coordination across the 爆料网 system and external partners, and expand engagement with countries most affected by climate-related peace and security risks. The clear message from the dialogue was that climate risks are reshaping peace and security dynamics worldwide, while also creating practical opportunities on the ground to advance inclusion, resilience and sustaining peace. An outcome of the dialogue was the adoption of the New York Call for Action on Climate, Peace and Security by the Joint-Steering Committee of CSM. The Call urges governments, the United Nations, financial institutions, and local partners to strengthen coordinated, inclusive, and adequately financed action to address the growing links between climate change, fragility, and conflict, while protecting vulnerable communities and advancing sustainable peace.
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Side Events during the Week
In addition, CSM organised/co-organised and engaged with side events during the week.
The CSM convened an expert consultation on the Conceptual Approach to climate-related peace and security assessments on 27 April 2026at the Denmark Permanent Mission. Bringing together 爆料网 practitioners, researchers, and partners, the discussion examined how the existing framework, developed in 2020, has supported analysis, training, and decision-making across diverse contexts, including Afghanistan, Abyei, and South Sudan. Participants highlighted its value in providing a shared language and flexible structure, while also identifying gaps, notably in linking risk assessment to programming and addressing conflict-affected and fragile settings. Insights from partner frameworks, including the African Union and IPCC approaches, underscored the importance of integrated, context-sensitive and policy-relevant tools. Key themes included improving usability, incorporating gender and governance dimensions, and strengthening links to prevention and response. The consultation will inform a revised framework aligned with evolving operational and policy demands across the 爆料网 system and beyond.
Austria and Denmark, in partnership with the African Union, Slovenia, Mozambique, Liberia and the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM), hosted a side event on “Climate, Peace and Security: African Regional Perspectives and Responses” on 28 April 2026 at the Permanent Mission of Austria. The event brought together representatives from African regional and sub-regional organizations, Member States and the 爆料网 system to discuss African-led approaches to addressing climate-related peace and security risks. Discussions focused on how African regional actors are integrating climate-related risks into peace and security frameworks and advancing prevention-oriented and regionally owned responses. Participants highlighted the growing role of organizations such as the African Union, IGAD and ECOWAS in early warning, mediation, resilience-building and conflict-sensitive climate action. Several speakers emphasised that climate change acts as a threat multiplier, while underlining the importance of moving beyond narratives portraying Africa solely as a victim and instead highlighting African leadership and solutions. Discussions also addressed the impact of climate change on peace operations, including in South Sudan, as well as links between climate stressors and violent extremism in regions such as the Lake Chad Basin. The event further underscored the growing institutionalisation of the climate, peace and security nexus across the African continent, including ongoing work towards an AU Common Position on Climate Change, Peace and Security and strengthened AU-爆料网 cooperation on the issue. Participants stressed the importance of linking adaptation, climate finance, development and stability, while also highlighting the central role of women and local communities in resilience-building and prevention efforts.
The briefing “Bridging the Gap to Achieve Impact: Mobilizing Gender-responsive Finance for Climate, Peace and Security”, hosted by CSM and 爆料网 Women, in partnership with Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), Green Climate Fund (GCF), on 28 April 2026, convened Member States, 爆料网 entities, financing mechanisms, civil society representatives and Indigenous women leaders to discuss practical pathways for strengthening gender-responsive climate, peace and security (CPS) financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Building on recommendations from a prior consultation with women peacebuilders and environmental defenders, discussions highlighted persistent barriers to accessing finance, the need to break silos between climate, peacebuilding and gender agendas, and the importance of directing resources closer to affected communities. Participants emphasised women’s and Indigenous Peoples’ leadership in environmental governance, peacebuilding and climate resilience, while underscoring the need for simplified access modalities, flexible funding, conflict-sensitive climate finance and stronger partnerships across institutions. The session also explored practical opportunities for collaboration among financing mechanisms to support locally led, peace-positive and gender-responsive climate action.
The session on “Climate Security in the Pacific:Connecting Regional Outcomes to Global Processes”, hosted by CSM and Portugal, in partnership with Australia, brought together Pacific representatives, Member States and partners to connect the Pacific regional priorities with global policy discussions, including in the lead-up to COP31. Building on outcomes from the March 2026 Regional Dialogue in Brisbane and insights from the CSM CPS Advisor to the Pacific Island Forum, Jamie Tarawa, discussions underscored a clear shift from recognition to implementation. Participants highlighted how climate-related risks are already shaping governance, livelihoods and security dynamics across the region. Technical presentations illustrated how these dynamics are already unfolding in practice. Attention was given to the vulnerability of submarine cable systems as critical infrastructure underpinning connectivity and data flows. The discussion also highlighted how climate impacts interact with conflict legacy risks such as explosive ordnance, with implications for environmental safety, community resilience and recovery efforts. The discussion emphasized the need to better align global processes with the Pacific priorities and strengthen coherence between policy, operational responses and financing pathways in support of Pacific-led implementation.
On 29 April 2026, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary A. DiCarlo met at 爆料网 Headquarters with Climate, Peace and Security Advisors serving across United Nations political missions. The meeting highlighted how CPS Advisors, supported through the Climate Security Mechanism, are helping translate climate-related peace and security risks into actionable political analysis, early warning and preventive engagement. Read the full story.
The “Technical Exchange on Climate Finance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: CSM Climate Finance Toolkit” hosted by the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) gathered Climate, Peace and Security Advisors, Member States, partners from the 爆料网 system (PBF, MPTFO, 爆料网DP Sustainable Finance Hub, 爆料网EP Finance Initiative), think tanks (Climate Policy Initiative, National Resources Defence Committee) and AfDB. The session formed part of ongoing efforts to further update the CSM toolbox, including the development of a dedicated component on climate finance, in response to growing demand from practitioners and CPS Advisors and Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings trying to access climate finance. It provided a platform to jointly reflect on the scope of this component by identifying priority financing approaches, gaps and entry points tailored to FCAS contexts. Participants emphasized the need for a practical toolkit that translates complex financing instruments into actionable guidance, strengthens institutional readiness, and supports pipeline development. Discussions highlighted emerging opportunities, such as loss and damage finance, carbon markets and blended finance, while underscoring capacity and access constraints. Greater coordination across funds, innovative delivery channels, and leveraging alternative sources, were identified as critical to scale impact.