At the USIP Knowledge Café, hosted by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in collaboration with USAFRICOM, around 15 institutions shared information on their analytical tools to help tackle the climate and security crises, including UNEP’s Strata.

“If data analysis shows where exactly food is likely to become scarce because of severe drought in Somalia, we can prepare our emergency relief much more effectively. Early warning mechanisms and risk analysis can – quite literally – gauge the temperature of a boiling crisis and help us to save lives”, said German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock at the PREVIEW conference.

Both conferences presented a platform to network with experts working on the climate security agenda and reinforced the message that data literacy is a means to achieve peace and climate security and not an end in itself.