Climate Security and Environment

As part of efforts to address the climate security issue, the UN in Somalia is focused on three priority areas: 1) peace and security, where we are looking at issues of environmental mediation, environmental policing and building capacity of the rule of law institutions around environmental protection; 2) nexus response to climate change impacts, where we are supporting communities to mitigate and respond to flooding and drought through nature-based solutions such as vegetative gabion walls and flood plain management; and 3) strengthening systems by supporting policy creation and providing legal assistance, as well as reducing the UN’s own carbon footprint in Somalia. The UN in Somalia continues to strengthen structures in Somalia by providing capacity and policy support to the Federal Government of Somalia with respect to national contributions, adaptation plans and national environmental policies. We are also partnering across the UN to deliver programmes around waste management, pollution control and biodiversity protection.