The SDG Traineeship offers students and young professionals an opportunity to contribute to sustainable business and entrepreneurship. An initiative by SDG House and TheRockGroup, the program helps to accelerate the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals in the public and private sector. In 2022, Continua and the Climate Governance Commission co-hosted a team of trainees who explored regenerative approaches to governance as a cross-cutting enabler of the SDGs and a missing link in SDG 16.

The peace & justice café is The Hague Humanity Hub’s premier networking event series for cross-sectoral connection and collaboration for a more peaceful and just world. This event brings together peacebuilders, justice innovators, researchers, humanitarians, impact entrepreneurs, policy makers and other changemakers from The Hague and around the world.

Indigenous and Rural Women's Voices: Recommendations to Address Climate Security Risks goes beyond the idea of climate change as a threat multiplier and highlights what indigenous and rural women in Colombia recommend be done to improve both environmental health and human security.

A key change underway today is the greater empowerment of women in the field of security. Happy to announce that I’m now teaching classes on women in defense planning and gender, climate change and national security as part of a program of in-residence and virtual courses hosted by the Institute for Security Governance.

It’s out! The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform’s white paper on the future of environmental peacebuilding is now online, with beautiful artwork to bring this compendium to life. Our article on ecological overshoot is one of 50 contributions, made in recognition of the Stockholm +50 conference coming up later this year.

At Europe’s biggest impact meetup in The Hague, Continua hosted a roundtable on “Giving Earth a Seat at the Table,” or new approaches to negotiations which can give nature a more direct voice in processes from public policy development to peace negotiations.

What role can security and justice institutions play, not only in responding to the risks posed by climate change but also in tackling the factors leading to climate change in the first place?