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  1. “This also means committing more resources to adaptation efforts, particularly for countries experiencing armed conflict. We must ensure that those most at risk are our urgent priority.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  2. “Humanitarian organizations can also help other actors apply a conflict-sensitive lens to their own work and address some of the risks that limit their action. Thirdly, a greater respect for the international humanitarian law that protects the natural environment can limit its degradation and thus reduce the harm and the risks that conflict-affected communities endure, including because of climate change. On a local level, in places where we work, there is no shortage of resolve to find ways to cope with the changing climate. But without decisive support from the international community, what is happening now in many parts of Africa will only get worse, and existing vulnerabilities might multiply. In conclusion, building resilient communities alongside efforts to protect those communities from violence is indeed critical.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  3. “The Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council are international bodies with the ability to design responses to armed conflict that are climate-sensitive. Allow me therefore to offer three suggestions that can help ensure complementarity and sustainable impact. First, in order to adequately address growing climate risks in conflict settings, we need to design context-specific responses that consider people’s individual needs and characteristics. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Secondly, we should share knowledge and align experiences. The Security Council can indeed ensure this through more regular and systematic discussions, including with regional and subregional organizations.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  4. “Those cooperatives have helped people to work together to enhance resilience in places in which groundwater production is indeed essential. Frontline humanitarian action is a vital stabilizing factor in fragmented environments and a building block towards peacebuilding efforts. However, humanitarians are not peacemakers and cannot respond alone to the multitude of challenges necessary to achieve sustainable peace. As today’s concept note rightly suggests (see S/2022/737, annex) our common challenge is to work together, in complementarity and at different scales, to respond to the combined effects of climate change and wars. Yet we stumble on the “how” of our collective response, with risks of over-securitizing the solution or taking short cuts that ultimately lead to maladaptation.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  5. “In the Niger, where conflict is forcing both host and displaced communities together in areas with scarce resources, we are designing an irrigation, agroforestry and agropastoralism programme aimed at strengthening livelihoods and reversing environmental degradation. The programme is indeed based on the notion that in order to be resilient, a community needs to live in a resilient environment. In Somalia, climate change, including severe droughts, coupled with three decades of conflict are combining to worsen an already dire humanitarian situation, in which the recurrent nature of shocks means that people have little time to adjust to them. The ICRC has supported the creation of agricultural cooperatives with training, drought-resistant crops, farming tools and cash for the fuel needed for irrigation.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  6. “Providing solar-powered water pumps and high-yielding drought-resistant seeds and training women’s groups in year-round greenhouse agricultural production are some of our activities in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic and the Sudan. In Mali, for example, we are focusing not just on structures, but also on information. That means getting reliable climate and weather data into the hands of people who need it — the 80 per cent of the population that depends on rain-fed farming and grazing. Timing is also important: we are partnering with the national meteorological department to ensure the data is not only accessible but that it also can be understood and applied to livelihood activities.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  7. “Thirdly, despite clear needs, actors that are best equipped to provide climate finance and support climate adaptation are largely absent from those places because of security risks. Humanitarian action in conflict areas has also been affected by climate change, where it is clearer than ever that steps must be taken to ensure preventive and long- term responses that strengthen people’s resilience and adaptive capacities. Allow me to offer a few examples in that regard. In several countries in the Sahel, we help farmers and herders cope with increasing variability in rainfall and periods of water scarcity.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  8. “Furthermore, we have drawn attention to the natural environment being a silent casualty of war, as well as the consequences of environmental damage for conflict-affected populations, including a lowered resilience to climate shocks. Today the ICRC, alongside the larger International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, works closely with communities for whom the convergence of those risks is not an abstraction but a reality. What we see is clear. First, the majority of countries considered the most vulnerable and least ready to adapt to climate change are also experiencing wars and armed conflict. Secondly, those converging shocks are dramatically affecting people’s lives, as well as institutions and social cohesion, unfortunately prolonging existing tensions and perpetuating fragility.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  9. “At the outset, allow me to express the great appreciation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for today’s important debate on climate risks and security in Africa, held at the initiative of Gabon and chaired by Mr. Moussa Adamo. (spoke in English) Representatives of the ICRC, including its former President Peter Maurer, have told the Security Council that the convergence of climate risk, environmental degradation and armed conflict threatens people’s lives and health and worsens food, economic and water insecurity. We have also said that climate change multiplies existing vulnerabilities and inequalities in conflict zones, and that the impact of such overlap can shape human mobility and access to resources on a regional scale.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source