INTRODUCING ENVIRONMENT OF PEACE - The Environment of Peace initiative

SIPRI launched the Environment of Peace initiative in May 2020, with the principal aim of examining the connections between two of these crises— or sets of crises—that have far-reaching implications for peace and human well-being in the decades ahead: one affecting the natural environment and planetary systems; the other affecting security, and the norms and institutions that are meant to uphold i. [...] Much has changed in just seven years since the publication of the last comparable report—A New Climate for Peace—not only in the mounting evidence of the impacts of 2 ENVIRONMENT OF PEACE compounding environmental crises, but also in academic understanding of the relationships between environmental stresses and insecurity.3 The Environment of Peace reports go beyond a climate framing and look acro. [...] The immediate causes of both the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine did not lie in the environmental sphere. [...] In the case of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the compounding and cascading effects of the invasion on food security in climate-vulnerable regions, as well as the consequences of dependence on fossil fuels, are clear to see. [...] The Environment of Peace research report The Environment of Peace reports are the output of a process involving leading experts and practitioners in the fields of environment and security.