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Climate change and risk
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The predicted impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible. The World Economic Forum has ranked climate-related risks – including extreme weather events, water scarcity and the failure to adapt and mitigate climate change – among the top five global risks. Policymakers, researchers and the public increasingly recognize the need to address climate-related security risks through cooperation and dialogue.
SIPRI’s work on climate change and risk provides reliable insights on how climate-related security risks evolve and how they are interlinked and interact with different social, political and economic processes. SIPRI researchers also analyse how different policy organisations are responding to these risks and advise them on conflict-sensitive adaptation and mitigation strategies and international efforts for sustaining peace.
RESEARCH INITIATIVES
This project seeks to deepen the knowledge about climate-related security risks and refine the understanding of how to address these risks in different societal and geographical contexts.
This initiative aims to help organizations to better secure peace and cooperation in times of global environmental change, including climate change.
This project examines how society needs to be reformed to address increasing resource scarcity while securing positive development in the 21st century.
The expert working group seeks to highlight the gap in climate risk informed decision-making and strives to produce timely climate security assessments.
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Krampe, F., van de Goor, L., Barnhoorn, B., Smith E. and Smith, D.: Water Security and Governance in the Horn of Africa (SIPRI: Stockholm, March 2020)
Mobjörk, M.: Framing and Responding to Climate-related Security Risks in Swedish Development Cooperation (SIPRI: January 2020)
Klimenko, E.: The Geopolitics of a Changing Arctic (SIPRI: Stockholm, December 2019)
Research staff
Dr Malin Mobjörk is the Director of the Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Dr Florian Krampe is a Senior Researcher in the Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Dr Elise Remling is a Researcher in SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Dr Farah Hegazi is a Researcher in SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Jiayi Zhou is a Researcher in the Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Karolina Eklöw is a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Rickard Söder is a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Elizabeth Smith is a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Vane Moraa Aminga is a Research Assistant in the Climate Change and Risk Programme.
Anniek Barnhoorn is a Research Assistant with SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme.