He urged host Governments, development actors and the private sector to provide their support. Since 2018, the Climate Security Mechanism - a joint initiative between those two Departments, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - has provided multidisciplinary support to Member States, regional organizations and United Nations entities to better understand the linkages between climate, peace and security. Alongside other cross-border challenges, environmental degradation and extreme weather events - amplified by climate change - have increasingly challenged missions’ ability to carry out their mandates.Īcross the board, the Department of Peacebuilding and Political Affairs and the Department of Peace Operations are striving to integrate climate considerations into their work, he continued. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, said most United Nations peace operations have faced a deteriorating security and political environment over the past several years. With the climate crisis generating an increasing threat to global peace and security, the Security Council must ramp up its efforts to protect the Organization’s peace operations around the world and lessen the risk of conflicts emanating from rising sea levels, droughts, floods and other climate-related events, briefers, ministers and delegates told the 15-nation organ.
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