Partnership with UN Environment for Tracking Environment-Related Risks

Partnership including McGill University and UN Environment

Project Description

We are pleased to announce a new multidisciplinary partnership between McGill University and the UN Environment on a research to practice agenda on natural resource conflict mediation and prevention. With global trends such as population growth, biodiversity loss and climate change, competition over scarce resources is intensifying and consequently creating new conflicts or exacerbating existing ones. By combining McGill researchers’ and the UN’s expertise and resources, this collaboration has potential to influence global policy and reduce environment-related risks. The partnership seeks to establish a process that will enhance capacity to identify environment-related threats to human security and monitor the interaction between environmental factors and political or social tensions at regional, national and global levels.

For more information, please contact:

• Franque Grimard, Associate Professor at McGill University – Department of Economics
• Sébastien Jodoin, Assistant Professor at McGill University – Faculty of Law
• Jon Unruh, Associate Professor at McGill University – Department of Geography