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New paper highlights the co-benefits of coordinating climate action and peacebuilding

A recently published paper authored by researchers from the Alliance, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research and Humboldt University of Berlin discussed how climate mitigation and peace building can become a virtuous cycle that generates sustainable development co-benefits.The authors argued for the need for the peace building and environmental sectors to collaborate based on the understanding of the relationships and overlaps between what causes violent conflict and its relationship with climate change, environmental degradation and social vulnerabilities.