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Last month, SIPRI experts and researchers travelled to Brussels to participate in several events.

This week SIPRI held a launch of its Environment of Peace report in Latin America. The report provides the most comprehensive account to date of how different aspects of the environmental crisis are interacting with today’s darkening security horizon to create a new era of risk.

SIPRI is pleased to release the Environment of Peace research report, which sets out in detail the evidential and analytical foundations of the policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk that was launched in May at the 2022 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.

On 29 November Hafsa Maalim, SIPRI Associate Senior Researcher, participated in a hybrid United Nations Security Council Arria-formula meeting entitled ‘Climate, Peace and Security: Opportunities for the UN Peace and Security Architecture’.

SIPRI will actively engage in several events at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). The conference is held on 6–18 November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

SIPRI, in collaboration with the governments of Germany and Sweden and the German Council on Foreign Relations, hosted a side event at COP27’s preparatory meeting (PRECOP27) in Kinshasa on 5 October. The event addressed the conflict situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its links to climate security.

The executive summary of SIPRI’s flagship policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk has now been published in all six official languages of the United Nations.

The latest edition of the Human Development Report, released today, dedicates a spotlight section to SIPRI’s flagship Environment of Peace policy report.

World Water Week 2022 provided SIPRI experts with an opportunity to present aspects of their work on the security implications of climate and environmental change, including the Environment of Peace report.

On 21–22 June SIPRI actively participated in the third edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development, which was on the theme ‘Africa in an Era of Cascading Risks and Climate Vulnerability: Pathways for a Peaceful, Resilient and Sustainable Continent’. The forum was held in a hybrid format in Cairo and online.

This week saw the relaunch of the Stockholm Hub on Environment, Climate and Security, a cross-institutional research collaboration supported by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

(Stockholm, 23 May 2022) World leaders are failing to prepare for a new era of complex and often unpredictable risks to peace as profound environmental and security crises converge and intensify, according to a major report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

(Stockholm, 23 May 2022) Over the next three days, more than 2600 participants from 150 countries and over 70 partner organizations will convene in person and in a virtual space for the ninth annual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.

SIPRI had an active and engaged presence at this year’s Munich Security Conference, 18–20 February. With climate change as one of the focus themes of the conference, SIPRI hosted a round-table discussion titled ‘An Environment of Peace: The Challenge of Securing both Peace and a Sustainable Environment’.

On 25 January, SIPRI and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a joint virtual consultation to inform the preparations for two flagship reports, SIPRI’s Environments of Peace report and UNDP’s ‘2021–22 Human Development Report’ (HDR).

Leading up to the launch of the Environment of Peace report in May 2022, members of the initiative have actively engaged in stakeholder activities since the beginning of the year.

Margot Wallström, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, introduced SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative during her keynote address to the ‘Workshop on Climate, Peace and Security: How to Operationalize Principles on Environmental Peacebuilding’, held in Seville, Spain, on 9–10 December.

SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative hosted a virtual workshop at this year’s Geneva Peace Week. The session on ‘Policy Pathways for an Environment of Peace’ took place on 3 November.

On 19 October, Margot Wallström and Helen Clark, members of the international expert panel advising SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative, addressed a virtual seminar on peace and climate change organized by the International Peace Bureau, the Olof Palme International Center and the International Trade Union Confederation.

On 23 September, Ilwad Elman, a panellist for SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative, addressed a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the effects of climate change on international peace and security.

On 21 June Chibeze Ezekiel, a panellist for SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative, briefed a virtual meeting of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security at the United Nations in New York.

Tomorrow (4 June) sees the debut of a new documentary featuring Johan Rockström, a member of the international panel guiding SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative and narrated by the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. 

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 2022, SIPRI today presents a new initiative which aims to address the negative impact of environmental crises. The ‘Environment of Peace 2022’ (EP 2022) initiative is led by SIPRI under the guidance of a distinguished panel of international experts.

SIPRI is proud to host the fourth annual SIPRI Lecture, held on the theme ‘Environment of Peace’. The lecture will be delivered by HE Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.