Center for Climate and Foreign Policy

DGAP’s Center for Climate and Foreign Policy assesses the societal and geoeconomic impacts of climate change. The interdisciplinary team builds on scientific findings to develop policy recommendations for a coherent German foreign policy at the interface of climate security and human security.

Main Topics:

• Relevance of climate change for German security policy
• Coherence in response to the climate crisis given the interrelationship between the domestic and foreign policy dimensions of climate policy
• Consequences of climate migration and displacement worldwide
• Geoeconomic dimensions of the climate crisis: German climate and energy policy and international climate diplomacy
• Role of civilian crisis prevention in hindering the escalation of resource conflicts
• International legal dimensions of the climate crisis