The Burning Question: Climate and Conflict
Mon 27 Oct
|The Conduit
Andrew Gilmour and Paddy O’Connell explore how climate change contributes to conflict and undermines prospects for peace.
Time & Location
27 Oct 2025, 18:15 – 19:30 GMT
The Conduit, 6 Langley St, London WC2H 9JA, UK
About the event
Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue, it is driving conflict, displacement, and deepening global insecurity. What would it take to address climate justice and political conflict together, rather than in isolation?
In this timely conversation, Andrew Gilmour joins broadcaster Paddy O’Connell to explore the intersection of climate, sustainability, peace, and migration, asking how solutions to the climate crisis can also lay the groundwork for more just and lasting peace.
Andrew Gilmour is the former Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation. He stepped down in January 2025. Before joining the Berghof Foundation in May 2020, Andrew served 30 years at the United Nations, most recently as Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights from 2016 to 2019 and as Political Director in the Office of the Secretary-General in New York from 2012 to 2016. He previously held senior UN positions in numerous conflict zones including Iraq, South Sudan, the Middle East,…
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