In line with this better understanding, climate change and security have been reframed in the political space, to focus more on human security. The solutions to climate-related security risks cannot be military, but are linked to development and people's vulnerabilities in complex social and politically fragile settings . This has resulted in integration of climate-related security risk into institutional and national frameworks , including several Nationally Determined Contributions  . One example is the UN Climate Security Mechanism-set up in 2018 between UNDP, UNEP and UN DPPA to help the UN more systematically address climate-related security risks and devise prevention and management strategies. Yet work remains in bridging these concerns with practical responses on the ground . Especially since emerging research building on the maladaptation literature shows that this practice cannot just mean adding adaptation and mitigation to the mix of development strategies in a given location, as this may have unintended and unanticipated effects and might even backfire completely . In extremely underdeveloped, fragile contexts such as Afghanistan, the local-level side effects of climate adaptation and mitigation projects might result in different development outcomes and question the potential for sustainable peace . Given the clearer understanding of the intertwined nature of climate change, security and development-especially in fragile and conflict affected regions-a rethinking of how to transfer this knowledge into policy solutions is necessary for the formulation of CRD.
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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