Climate, peace and security fact sheet : [electronic resource] Myanmar / Series editors: Cedric de Coning (NUPI) and Florian Krampe (SIPRI) ; Contributors: Kyungmee Kim, Nadine Andersen, Katongo Seyuba, Kheira Tarif, Thor Olav Iversen and Ingvild Brodtkorb

SIP2423

"May 2024"

This Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet examines the series of crises facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and offers a range of recommended actions for the international community to address them effectively. The DRC is faced with a confluence of climate change, environmental degradation, resource exploitation and conflict dynamics that is exacerbating insecurity in the country. The dual impact of climate change and the global green energy transition risks deepening divisions over resource management and fostering intercommunal conflict over resources such as land and water. Climate-related security risks threaten to undermine human security through increased livelihood and food insecurity and changing patterns of transhumance.

This Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet is focused on Myanmar and the series of conflict- and climate-related issues that face the country. The fact sheet offers a range of recommended actions for the international community to address these issues effectively. Myanmar is home to one of the highest concentrations of people vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with 40 per cent of the population residing in low-lying and coastal regions. Following a military takeover in 2021, the establishment of the State Administration Council (SAC) was met with broad popular resistance, retriggering confrontations with ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and local anti-junta militias. Conflict has exacerbated the country’s vulnerability to climate change and environmental degradation.