Improving the Climate for Peace Berlin Call for Action A destabilized Earth system implies unconscionable risks for peace and security The response required to address these risks must become a central foreign policy priority. 1. Risk-informed planning: 2. Enhanced capacity for action: BERLIN CLIMATE AND SECURITY CONFERENCE 2019 need to overcome their own internal sectoral barriers by ensuring that climate and conflict sensitivity are part and parcel of all aspects of their foreign policy, not dispensable add?ons. We encourage investment in new human, technical, and financial capacities, as well as piloting and upscaling programmes that integrate climate action and peacebuilding. Specifically, we are committed to sustaining and strengthening the newly created Climate and Security Mechanism of the UN and to strengthening early warning, risk analysis and management capacity in the field. We call for support of those states and regions most affected by climate?fragility risks, emphasizing the need for both greater investment into adaptation and enhanced conflict sensitivity in fragile contexts. 3. Improving operational responses: Attenuating climate change?related security risks needs to inform the entire gamut of peacebuilding: early warning, mediation and peace support operations. To enable the UN system to better recognize, assess and act on climate?security interlinkages, we call on the UN Security Council to acknowledge the threat that climate? related risks pose to international peace and security. Because the UNSC has a pre?eminent role with respect to safeguarding international peace and security, it cannot ignore the climate change?related security risks that increasingly undermine the global prevention and stabilization agendas. Addressing the risks posed by climate change to peace and security is a great opportunity for, and a fundamental part of the Sustaining Peace agenda. We must not let this opportunity pass. Federal Foreign Office ?3 a E) 6 POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR :5 CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH adelphi