Climate Change and Resilience

Strengthening the Response to Climate Variability in Fragile States

Governance the key to climate resilience in Bangladesh?

A blog by our Senior Climate Change and Security Advisor

This article first appeared on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website.

Resilience, as a concept, has re-emerged after a few decades of hibernation as the development term du jour.  While not without its challenges, the approach certainly has merits.

Thu, 09/05/2013

Climate change, resilience and peace

A video talk by our Secretary General

International Alert convenes an expert roundtable, Building resilience – building peace, in Kathmandu on Monday 8 July. It’s the culmination of two and half years of research on the impact of climate change on local communities in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. I can’t be there, so we recorded four minutes to camera as my contribution to the day's events.

Fri, 05/07/2013

Resilience is the best defence

Improving local and national responses to climate change and security

People fishing on Lake Chilika. Photo by Rita WillaertInternational Alert’s latest research, produced in collaboration with the South Asia Network for Security and Climate Change (SANSaC), looks at the relationship between the environment and security in South Asia.

Janani Vivekananda - Manager, Climate Change and Conflict
Tue, 02/07/2013

Environmental change and security

How to strengthen responses to climate variability

Photo by RebeccaConway/IRIN, 2012On 15 May, International Alert partnered with the International Peace Institute (IPI) to present findings on environmental change and security at a roundtable event at IPI in New York.

Janani Vivekananda
Fri, 31/05/2013

Strengthening responses to climate variability in South Asia

The importance of local communities in addressing the impact of climate change on security

 

On 7 February, Janani Vivekananda, International Alert’s Climate Change and Conflict Programme Manager, spoke at the Strengthening Responses to Climate Variability in South Asia conference at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC. Janani presented four case studies - on Nepal, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh - to illustrate levels of risk and resilience to environmental change at village level.

Janani Vivekananda
Wed, 20/02/2013

Climate change and insecurity

Strengthening responses to a double threat in South Asia

Last month saw delegates from around the world assemble in Doha for the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in an effort to inch towards a global deal on climate change. Yet discussions on how much financing should be provided and by whom didn’t reach satisfying conclusions, despite a week’s worth of negotiations.

Shreya Mitra
Thu, 13/12/2012

Security implications of climate change in the Philippines

An expert roundtable discussion

International Alert in cooperation with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, EU Brussels, and AIM Centre for Development Management, convened an expert roundtable discussion on the security implications of climate change in the Philippines on 24th April 2012.

Janani Vivekananda
Thu, 31/05/2012

Dialogue on climate change, conflict and effective response

Linking top-down to bottom-up approaches in South Asia and West Africa

 

International Alert’s fifth dialogue on climate change, conflict and fragility, held on 27th January 2012 in London, explored the connections between climate change and community level security, drawing on new research from West Africa and South Asia. During the discussion, participants explored the practicalities of linking top-down policies with on the ground realities in communities already facing complex risks to their human security.

Janani Vivekananda
Wed, 01/02/2012

Climate discourse

Creating a climate for conflict?

Stories of flood-affected communities in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, citizens from the disappearing islands of the Maldives and the drought affected communities of the Sahel, all in their own ways struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change are increasingly permeating mainstream consciousness within those countries whose carbon intensive development over the past 100 years has been contributing to these situations.

Janani Vivekananda
Wed, 30/11/2011

Averting climate conflict

UN Security Council links climate change to global peace – but overlooks local peace

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Janani Vivekananda
Fri, 22/07/2011
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