On 19 June 2025 from 8:30-11:00 CEST, ECDPM and Search for Common Ground are organising an in-person public event in ECDPM office in Brussels to discuss the role of climate-sensitive peacebuilding (or environmental peacebuilding) in the climate-security agenda of the EU.

Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell during the opening of the UN June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany, on Monday 8 June 2026.

10 June 2025 Climate and Environment The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving marine destruction, from illegal fishing and plastic pollution to the accelerating impacts of climate change.

Well-designed digital solutions have the potential to alleviate the impacts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) and address FCV-related risks and drivers that undermine economic and social development. However, progress on digital transformation in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations (FCS) lags non-FCS peers at similar income levels, widening the digital divide for some of...