UN Security Council Formal Meetings on Climate, Peace and Security Since 2007

United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub provides a dataset on formal Security Council meetings focused on climate-related shocks and stressors. The data covers meetings since the first dedicated session on Climate, Peace and Security held on 17 April 2007. It was last updated on 26 March 2026 and is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in UN Security Council attention to climate-related security issues based on meeting topics.
• Tracking the frequency and timing of formal discussions on climate, peace, and security since 2007.
• Mapping the evolution of sub-agenda items related to energy, security, and climate over time.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub.
• Provides a defined temporal scope starting from the first dedicated meeting on 17 April 2007.
• Focuses on a specific and policy-relevant theme: formal meetings on climate, peace, and security.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub

Collection Method

Formal meetings are included based on an analysis of their sub-agenda items or topics.

Time Range

Since 17 April 2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:58:15.696933.

Geography

Global (United Nations Security Council)