Institute for Environmental Security
Advancing Global Environmental Security through
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Welcome to the Institute for Environmental Security
The Institute for Environmental Security (IES) is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, in order to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development.
IES News
Climate and Conflict: a Double Disaster for the Poorest People
A special approach for fragile states
While world leaders have left Copenhagen with a totally inadequate “climate agreement”, many glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, and many Africans face rising temperatures and increasing droughts. There is often insufficient knowledge and capacity to tackle these major problems. For countries involved in a civil war or those slowly... » Full Story
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Pathfinder Project
The 'Pathfinder 2010' project aims at finding ways of restricting the trade of illegally extracted natural resources in conflict-ridden fragile states. To achieve this, Pathfinder focuses on importing states and promotes the creation of new legal mechanisms.
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Climate Change & the Military Project
The CCTM Project aims at stimulating the debate on the relation between climate change and the role of the military and on how it could contribute to the struggle against impending security threats.
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Global Policy Coherence
The project on Global Policy Coherence aims for an improvement of the compatibility of existing trade and financial regimes with the new post-2012 climate change agreement.
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EnviroSecurity Assessments
The IES EnviroSecurity Assessments focusing on the Matavén forest - Colombia, the African Great Lakes region and Central Kalimantan - Indonesia are available on this site. Meanwhile, the IES is working on an EnviroSecurity Assessment for the Congo Basin and the Horn of Africa. Case study reports, legal analyses, recommendations, maps, posters and the latest news are available here. » ESPA Programme
'Vision' Interactive Map Viewer
The IES interactive map viewer displays overlapping GIS data on the IES case studies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. View GIS data and satellite images selecting your own combination of data and analytical indicators for different time periods. |
What is Environmental Security?The relation between the environment and the security of humans and nature has been the subject of much research in recent decades, and is now becoming an important focus of international environmental policy. Click here to read a 2-page overview on environmental security. See also our Introduction to the Concepts of Environmental Security and Environmental Conflict.
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