ECCP: Community resources, our LATAM chapter, and COP30 starts next week
All kinds of things are happening across our community!
Dear Colleagues,
As November kicks off and the end of 2025 inches closer, we have a few more conversations across the ecosystem. Read on to learn more.
If you’re new to the ECCP, welcome. You can follow the ECCP conversation on WhatsApp in our three groups: English, French, or Spanish. We’ve also just launched a brand new ECCP LinkedIn group, by popular request!
As usual, you’ll find a roundup of events, activities, and connection links here: https://ecosystemforpeace.org/2025.
Our next general monthly networking meeting will be held Tuesday 2 December at 14h CET. You can register your interest on this sign-up sheet if you’d like to receive calendar invitations for our monthly meetings.
Announcements and community-related events
I’m pleased to share a few related announcements and events hosted by our members:
Online event: Wednesday 5 November, 18h CET - Launch of the Ecological Threat Report 2025, hosted by the Alliance for Peacebuilding (register here)
New paper: A Distant Problem No Longer - How climate change is fuelling crime and fraying trust across Europe (read here)
Youth learning opportunity: Call for Applications - 2026 EnPAx Conference Fellows (learn more and apply here)
Award nomination: Nominate your peers for an award in environmental peacebuilding (read more and submit here)
Webinar series: Starts today! - Climate Action in Afghanistan: Reclaiming Afghanistan’s Climate Future (register here)
Recent article: Budgeting for war: The climate-security trade-off and profiles of responsibility in international law (read here)
You are warmly welcome to send resources, events, or announcements my way for inclusion in upcoming email newsletters.
COP30 starts soon!
As we get closer to COP30, join the Climate and Environment Charter Secretariat and FAO at their webinar “Engaging at COP30: What the humanitarian sector can expect in Belém?” on Thursday, 6 November from 15:00 - 16:30 CET. You will hear from Charter Signatories and partners ranging on a variety of themes and topics such as national and local action, the Action Agenda, adaptation and negotiations, human mobility, loss and damage and peace priorities (from ECCP members!) at COP30 and how humanitarian actors can engage.
Following Peace at COP30? The Climate Security Mechanism is curating a list of events related to peace here. We’re also gathering a list of related papers, reports, and briefs published by ECCP community members on this document here. For example:
Feel free to add additional events and publications directly to the document. Our CSM colleagues are monitoring this document, so events you add here can be directly added to their trello collection (linked above), which has a wide audience.
Finally, you may remember that community members drafted a published a joint statement earlier this month - a call to Make Space for Peace at COP30. We’re pleased to see that there is a newly announced high-level event co-hosted by COP29 and COP30 Presidencies on peace next week! We send our good wishes to all members attending COP this month.
Are you in The Hague or London next week?
Join meet-ups with other ECCP members on Tuesday 11 November:
11 November, 3:30-5pm CET — The Hague, The Netherlands: Register for this meet-up here: https://forms.office.com/e/nB9MS1P58Q
11 November, 4-5:30pm UK time — London, United Kingdom: Contact ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com for more information.
Meet-ups have already been held this year in Nairobi, Washington, DC, Geneva, and Berlin. If you’d like to host a meet-up in your area, simply send us an email at ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com.
Contribute to support our community organizer for the Latin America chapter!
Over the past months, regional, national, and city-based groups of ECCP members have started to come together. We’re calling these “ECCP Chapters.” By the end of this year, I’ll create a page on our website which houses information on these different chapters, including information on how to connect with others from the region/country/city. We’re lucky to meet online as an international community, but also lucky to get to build relationships in person, too.
Our Latin America chapter is getting organized, and hopes to be able to work with a bilingual coordinator! To keep the ECCP Latin American chapter active, connected, and well-represented, the Coordinator role will assist in energizing the chapter and strengthening its connection with the global ECCP. Its primary responsibility is to support the group with administration, communication, and logistics.
You are warmly welcome to donate to this crowdfunding page to support that chapter. You’ll also learn more about how the money raised will be used.
Importantly, this is absolutely optional. The ECCP is free to all participants!
What innovations are you seeing as the “green transition” picks up?
The ECCP has a new Policy Working Group focused on the so-called Green Transition. The group met last week and, appropriately, started by defining the green transition for the purpose of internal coordination across the ECCP: Read those notes here.
Please refer to the ECCP calendar on the 2025 Activity page for all upcoming meetings in this group.
Our next meeting will be on 20 November, 15h CET on “innovation alignment.” The goal of this area of influence is to map out the diversity of innovations for green transition at multiple levels and in multiple sectors.
Are you aware of any “innovations” being used in your community or work? Please send us an email at ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com with your ideas.
What do we mean by innovations? Here is a list of examples.
If you’d like to join this group, please sign up here.
ECCP working groups and upcoming meetings
For a complete list of upcoming meetings in the community, please refer to the 2025 Activity Page - you’ll find a calendar at the bottom of the page.
We now have 4 policy working groups within the CoP. Each working group has a folder with meeting notes and other relevant documents, as well as a registration page to receive calendar invitations for related meetings:
Peace@COP30 Policy Working Group Folder / register for updates here
Peace@CBD Policy Working Group Folder (conflict-sensitive conservation) / register for updates here
Environment, Peacebuilding, and Security Policy Working Group Folder / register for updates here
Green Transition Policy Working Group folder / register for updates here
We also have two topical groups with ongoing notes and resources:
Decolonization Discussion Group / join this group by emailing ecosystemforpeace@gmail.com
That’s more than enough information for one email. As always, don’t hesitate to send in your resources, events, publications, questions, and more. I look forward to seeing you online sometime soon!
Warmly,
Annika