cover image: Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet Sudan

20.500.12592/00v137

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet Sudan

12 May 2022

In particular, the adverse effects of climate change, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the combined with gender-based disparities in natural resource African Union (AU); the UN system should expand its regional governance, accentuate the climate-related security risks for and cross-border climate-related risk analyses and cooperation, women and girls. [...] Relevant Sudanese authorities and institutions, including civil society, should explore entry points for environmental In the face of climate change, environmental degradation, peacebuilding efforts under the framework of the 2020 Juba persistent political and economic instability and violent conflict, Peace Agreement (JPA), and with support from the UN and local communities have shown remarkable. [...] However, partners to facilitate the active participation of women and youth projected increases in the magnitude and pace of climate change may in environmental peacebuilding and peace processes, and in overwhelm local adaptive capacities, especially taking into account the developing early warning and conflict prevention mechanisms. [...] result, herders have encroached on farmlands, generating communal clashes between Arab pastoralists and non-Arab farmers.35 In response, Military and Armed Actors local militias assemble to defend communities and protect their The combined effects of climate change and violent conflict in the Darfur resources and livelihoods. [...] In the 1970s, landmark agreements contain core principles that can help Sudan to the 1990s and as recently as 2013, the nationalisation and sale of land take steps to guide the protection of the environment and the for large-scale mechanised agriculture favoured investors from management of natural resources.
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