working TOGETHER to safeguard our

climate, NATURE and security

COLLABORATION IS KEY TO

CLIMATE SECURITY

  • cross party

    Members across the political spectrum working together to safeguard our climate, nature and security; with an alliance uniting the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Green, Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, and Democratic Unionist Party benches.

  • COORDINATED

    Representatives uniting a network of Parliament’s climate and security efforts, including the Environmental Audit Committee, the Defence Committee, the National Security Strategy Joint Committee, and the National Preparedness Commission.

  • COOPERATIVE

    Parliamentarians supported by subject matter experts from across academia, Defence, and civil society; united in their determination to increase understanding and inform action.

committed
parliamentarians

directed by dedicated parliamentarians

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate, Nature & Security is Chaired by Barry Gardiner MP, and made up of members from across the political spectrum of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

“how [can] the UK work with its international partners on early intervention and prevention, understand the drivers of conflicts—for example, gross human rights abuses, climate change and lack of international aid—and see how we can get ahead of the curve in some situations?”
— John Healey MP (Defence Secretary)

creDible
experts

SUPPORTED BY subject matter EXPERTS

THE SECRETARIAT

The secretariat is provided by the Climate Change & (In)Security Project (CCIP), a collaboration between the University of Oxford and the British Army’s Centre for Historical and Armed Conflict (CHACR).

Meet the CCIP team.

THE ADVISORY BOARD

The secretariat provision is supported by an Advisory Board made up of military, academic, and policy experts, and Co-Chaired by Professor Tim Clack and Lieutenant General (retd) Richard Nugee, author of the UK Ministry of Defence, ‘Climate and Sustainability Report’.

“If we don’t make time to deal with it today, we won’t have time to deal with it tomorrow.”
— Lieutenant General (retd) Richard Nugee
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