Extreme events, long-term climatic changes, and environmental degradation impact security in complex ways and across sectors. These impacts manifest in highly context-specific ways based on geographic and socio-economic factors, but they can also lead to cascading consequences that contribute to regional and global insecurity or fragility. Therefore, it is imperative to address the security-climate nexus at national and regional as well as global level, including through multilateral processes and frameworks.

Integrating policy and planning processes on security and climate change offers several strategic opportunities to bridge silos or avoid negative feedback loops and trade-offs. However, the complexity of the nexus and its internal and external dynamics require deep knowledge of relevant thematic areas and cross-cutting aspects, such as finance, technology, and innovation. SLYCAN Trust’s work programme on security, climate change, and environment seeks to contribute to a holistic and evidence-based understanding of the nexus, identify priority gaps to be addressed, and explore solutions that unlock synergies in the context of multilateral and regional policy processes.

This publication as part of SLYCAN Trust’s work programme on security, climate change, and environment seeks to contribute to a holistic and evidence-based understanding of the role of human mobility in this nexus, identify priority gaps to be addressed, and explore solutions that unlock synergies in the context of multilateral and regional policy processes.