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
Scientists, policy makers and security experts see hope for effective short-term action on climate change
CES-IES Event
Despite the slow progress towards a new legally binding agreement on climate change, a diverse group of experts believe that vital action for limiting the negative impact of climate change can be achieved in the near term, if key institutions can be adapted or created to addresses the mitigation of... » Full Story
More IES News
- Building Climate Change Institutions: The Case of Environment and Security
- Recent Trends in EU External Action in the Fields of Climate, Environment, Development and Security
- HUGO: Hague Utilities for Global Organisations
- The Health and Security Perspectives of Climate Change - How to secure our future wellbeing
COBRA Project
NEW The objective of the COBRA Project is to find ways to integrate indigenous solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises in the Guiana Shield region.
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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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