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Climate Change, Insecurity, and Migration: A Closer Look at India
By Baisali Mohanty, Thin Lei Win, Siena Cicarelli, and Michael Werz
India presents a key case of the interplay between geopolitics and challenges at the climate-insecurity-migration nexus. As the world’s most populous nation grapples with a complex political environment, its urgent struggle to balance economic development and poverty reduction with climate action has implications for both its 1.4+ billion population and the broader South Asian region.
This new Nexus25 project brief analyzes current challenges in India, identifies critical policy gaps in both domestic and foreign policy, and makes recommendations for improving multilateral governance throughout the South and Southeast Asian region.
These areas of opportunity include:
- Leveraging political willpower to strengthen domestic architecture;
- Developing regional and transnational policy making platforms to effectively address the climate-migration-insecurity nexus;
- Building institutional capacity with adequate coordination mechanisms; and
- Ensuring adequate climate finance.
Nexus 25 Project Launches New Podcast, “Reshaping Multilateralism”
In early March, the Nexus25 project officially launched a new podcast, “Reshaping Multilateralism,” a series at the intersection of food, climate, security, and migration. The first teaser episode provides an overview of today’s top nexus challenges and some initial solutions for multilateral leaders. To discuss, Host Thin Lei Win was joined by the three experts leading Nexus25‘s work:
- Michael Werz, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser for North America and Multilateral Affairs to the Munich Security Conference;
- Erin Sikorsky, the Director of the Center for Climate and Security and the International Military Council on Climate and Security; and
- Nathalie Tocci, the Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and part-time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute.
The Nexus25 project is a joint Istituto Affari Internazionali/Center for Climate and Security initiative funded by Stiftung Mercator. The teaser is available on the Nexus25 website here, or wherever you get your podcasts. The next episode, “The View from MSC,” will be released on March 28th.
Supporting Sustainable Security in a Hot and Hungry World
Policymakers are increasingly acknowledging the impact of transnational challenges, such as food and climate issues, on driving conflicts. The global famine has reached unprecedented levels, highlighting the intricate connections between hunger, climate change, and global security. The escalating violence in Africa, the Middle East, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, coupled with the visible impact of climate change, exacerbates global food insecurity.
Despite the challenges, food presents an opportunity for multilateral cooperation. The process of mainstreaming food security into multilateral processes has begun, but significant gaps remain, particularly in the limited allocation of climate finance to green transitions in food systems.
This paper emphasizes the long-term and systemic nature of food security challenges, driven by development, security, governance, and environmental factors. Conflict can worsen hunger, and food insecurity can increase security risks, particularly for vulnerable populations. In addition, terrorist organizations may use food as a means of recruitment and control.
Therefore, it is important to integrate food security into interventions and climate finance efforts, and to have a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between food security, climate risks, political instability, and conflict. To move forward, it is important to recognize food as a predictive tool, shift away from donor-driven approaches, and discourage policy silos in order to address the intersection of hunger, climate, and security.
The Center for Climate and Security Joins Nexus25 Project as it Launches Phase 2, Hosts MSC Side Event
On February 16, 2024, the Nexus25 project organized an official side event at the Munich Security Conference, marking the official launch of Phase 2 of the project. The discussion, co-hosted with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), brought together leaders from government, multilateral organizations, civil society, security institutions and the private sector to discuss the links between hunger, climate and sustainable security.
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