Funding Environmental Peacebuilding: What Does it Take?

Theme Icon - Reimagining Environmental Peacebuilding

Date & Time
Jun 18, 2026 | 11.00 - 12.30

Location
CRX 230

Participants
Chair: Kelsey Coolidge, Jubitz Family Foundation (United States)
Phoebe Spencer, World Bank (United States)
Héloïse Heyer, PeaceNexus Foundation (Switzerland)
Catherine Wong, United Nations Development Programme & Climate Security Mechanism

In this roundtable, we will facilitate a practice-oriented exchange on what it takes to fund conflict-sensitive biodiversity and climate action, and environmental peacebuilding more broadly. Short opening inputs will be followed by small-group discussions, allowing participants from public and private funding institutions, as well as from implementing, research and policy organisations to exchange concrete experiences. The session will unpack constraints and opportunities faced by internal champions carrying this agenda within funding institutions, against the backdrop of major shifts in international cooperation policies and increasing conflict challenges faced by practitioners on the ground. It will put the spotlight on funding practices that incentivize and create enabling conditions for conflict-sensitive action, and that can help scale promising approaches to environmental peacebuilding and local leadership in this field.