WEBINAR: Sustainable finance for peace - Climate Security in the Sahel

3 September 2020. CGIAR webinar series on climate security - Sustainable finance for peace - Climate Security in the Sahel

The Sahel is a particular case where the interaction between climate-conflict can be strongly observed. With a high-dependence on rain-fed agriculture and livestock, climate variability, especially droughts, leave pastoralists and smallholders in this region particularly vulnerable. Moreover, the region remains fragile, embodied by factors such as weak capacity of the state, inter-group inequality and a history of violent conflict.

This Webinar discussed the drivers of conflict in the Sahel, and how climate-smart interventions can help to alleviate these tensions.

• Bruno Charbonneau (Speaker) Director, Centre FrancoPaix in Conflict Resolution and Peace Mission
• Robert Zougmoré (Speaker) Africa Program Leader, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
• Catherine-Lune Grayson-Courtemanche (Speaker) Policy Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Rachael Mcdonnell (Speaker) Strategic Program Director, IWMI
• Rigmor Koti (Speaker) Special Representative for the Sahel, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Ornella Moderan (Speaker) Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Head of Sahel Programme