ONE UN - Shaping safer and resilient cities: Consultation of Draft Policy Brief on Urban Climate Peace and Security (WUF13).
The thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 17 to 22 May 2026. The theme of WUF13 is: Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities. Climate peace and security (CPS) frameworks have thus far largely ignored the specificities of urban environments. In the face of rapid urbanization as well as city-specific disaster and conflict risks, it is timely to develop frameworks and tools that explicitly address the CPS nexus in an urban environment because rapid urbanisation compounds climate vulnerability by concentrating populations in informal, climate-exposed settlements . Climate stresses drive further urbanisation through rural push factors. Both processes interact to create conditions that can exacerbate the possibility of urban conflict . Such urban climate, peace and security approaches can build on the expertise of urban specialists which is well illustrated in the timely UNHABITAT report Rising temperatures, ris...