NATO leaders are gathering at their annual summit meeting this week to discuss important issues facing the Alliance. The Madrid Summit will address the Alliance’s response to the war in Ukraine, defence spending, climate security, and NATO’s strategic direction for the next decade. Here, we share some materials and analysis from the Network on these core issues.
On 21 September 2021, the European Leadership Network (ELN) convened the Contact Group on Russia-West relations via Zoom to discuss the prospects for EU-Russia climate engagement.
As the COP26 climate summit enters its final day, Carlo Trezza writes that next year’s NPT Review Conference should recognise the catastrophic environmental consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.
In September, between International Peace Day, UN General Assembly Week and the COP climate summit, the ELN and the Institute for Economics and Peace convened an intergenerational group of leaders to identify the kinds of leadership that are needed to confront the global challenges facing humanity.
On the eve of the COP26 summit, Irina Ghaplanyan writes that we need to rethink our models of leadership and re-examine our understanding of human security to deal with the existential threats we face.
As COP26 gets underway next week, Tatiana Romanova writes that an EU-Russia climate partnership depends on both the EU prioritising selective engagement over resilience, and on Russia turning rhetoric into reality. A climate partnership may not change the tone of Russia-West relations but it can help build trust.