UN Security Council Decisions on Climate, Peace and Security Since 2007
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Description
Since 17 April 2007, this dataset contains paragraphs from United Nations Security Council decisions referencing climate-related shocks and stressors. It includes validated text from resolutions, presidential statements, and letters, identified via keyword searches for terms like climate change, drought, and natural disaster. The data is provided by the United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub and was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
Track the evolution of climate-security discourse in international policy based on keyword-tagged decision paragraphs.
Analyze the frequency and context of specific environmental stressors like drought or flooding mentioned in Security Council texts.
Identify thematic linkages between climate-related keywords and peace/security outcomes in official UN documents.
Strengths
Data is validated to remove false positives from keyword searches.
Covers a defined time period starting from the first dedicated Council meeting on the topic in April 2007.
Uses a specific list of 24 keywords for identification, including climate change, cyclone, and desertification.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub
Collection Method
Paragraphs identified via keyword search of Security Council decisions and validated.
Time Range
From 17 April 2007 onward
Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-26 09:58:15.070429; freshness should be verified.