Current Activities
Integrating Development, Environment and Security - The IDEAS action programme
In 2019 EDRC launched its new action programme: Integrating Development, Environment and Security (IDEAS).
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Project CASA
EDRC coordinates the project on Climate and Security Action through Civil-Military Cooperation in Climate-Related Emergencies (Project CASA) which studies the extent to which NATO and selected non-NATO countries have engaged their national militaries in responding to climate-related emergencies.
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Brussels Dialogue on Climate Diplomacy
The Brussels Dialogue on Climate Diplomacy (BDCD) is an informal network for the exchange of information and promotion of cooperation among European institutions, international organisations, think-tanks and NGOs active in the nexus between climate change and international, national, human and environmental security.
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North-Atlantic Civil-Society Working-Group on Environment and Security
In 2021 the EDRC invited the non-governmental organisations participating in the BDCD and other NGOs, think tanks and individual experts to join the informal NCWES to exchange ideas and produce the report entitled: “Sustainable Peace & Security in a Changing Climate: Recommendations for NATO 2030”.
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Climate Change and International Security
Since its founding EDRC’s work has included a focus on climate change including serving as the international secretariat for the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change (GMACCC).
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Transatlantic Responses to 21st Century Environmental Challenges
Through new ways of learning from each other, of pooling our knowledge and creating new innovative dialogues between environmental experts and policy makers we can increase the effectiveness of our separate - and also common - efforts.
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