Bridging Climate and Environmental Security and Crimes That Affect the Environment | BCSC 2025
Publisher: Climate Diplomacy, adelphi, German Federal Foreign Office
Author(s): Carlos Sánchez Del Águila, Nicole Quijano-Evans, Marcus Schroder, and Olivia Swaak-Goldman
Date: 2025
Topics: Conflict Causes, Cooperation, Governance
This session examined how crimes that affect the environment—such as wildlife and forest crime, illegal fishing, mining and metals trafficking, and illegal waste—intersect with climate change, with each exacerbating the other by deepening vulnerabilities, degrading ecosystems, driving pollution and biodiversity loss, and heightening climate- and security-related risks.