This event was co-sponsored by the European Policy Centre (EPC) and Nexus²⁵, the latter being a joint CCS/Istituto Affari Internazionali project funded by Stiftung Mercator.

Introduction

This event report is the third for the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) initiative Feeding Resilience, a project dedicated to the U.S. national security benefits of jointly addressing climate change, food security, and stability. The project also aims to share experiences about the nexus of climate change, food insecurity, instability and national security in an effort to identify policy gaps and elicit recommendations and best practices as a foundation for Feeding Resilience’s policy report in 2024.

This report summarizes the third roundtable in the series, Climate Change, Geopolitics, and Food Security: Implications for Europe, the United States, and Multilateralism, held in Brussels and virtually on 13 November 2023. The discussion was co-sponsored by the European Policy Centre (EPC) and Nexus²⁵, the latter being a joint CCS/Istituto Affari Internazionali project funded by Stiftung Mercator. The roundtable focused on the geopolitical implications of climate change and food insecurity, with insights from European Union (EU) institutions, United Nations Development and Humanitarian agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), United States military and civil society organizations, and the organizers.

The roundtable was held under Chatham House Rule¹, and the list of participants, agenda, and presentations are available at climateandsecurity.org/feeding-resilience-3 and in Annexes 1 and 2 of this report.