Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid has departed to Germany to attend Berlin Climate and Security Conference scheduled for June 4. During the visit, Minister Shahid will also be attending the 4th German-Asian Business Dialogue and hold meetings with senior officials from German Government.
The Berlin Climate and Security Conference is organised by German Federal Foreign Office, in partnership with Adelphi and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The invitation-only high-level conference will bring together leading figures from governments, international organisations, the private sector, civil society, and the scientific community to discuss the growing risks that climate change presents for peace and security, and the need for quick and decisive action to prevent and minimise climate-related conflict and instability.
The conference is intended as a wake-up call that the climate crisis is not just an environmental and development issue, but represents a core risk to global peace and prosperity. It will highlight the foreign policy relevance of climate policy, and the necessity of building a preventative framework for action at the global level.
The conference will discuss concrete preventative mechanisms that can help foreign policy actors address climate-related security risks, which include conflict over natural resources, impending food shortages, and territorial losses due to sea-level rise. The conference programme will include roundtable discussions on critical aspects of the climate-change and security nexus, including migration and displacement, socio-economic conflicts and fragile states.