Bonn Contact Group

The Bonn Contact Group on Climate Peace and Security ahead of COP29 brings together professionals, academics and civil society activists from across Europe and beyond who support the process of bringing to the COP29 process the agenda of peace. 

The Group was established at the end of the Bonn Dialogue Meeting on Climate Peace and Security, held in Bonn on 3 May 2024. The landmark meeting brought together representatives of the COP28 and COP29 presidencies UAE and Azerbaijan), representatives of think tanks, civil society organisations and academics, and other stakeholders, for a dynamic exchange of views on how to build on the success of COP28 in Dubai, and particularly how to take forward the COP28 Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace. It was felt that what was achieved in Dubai should not be lost and that civil society needs to work with the Azerbaijani presidency of COP29 to consolidate the ideas and take them forward.

Given the vastness of the topic, and the limitation of time and resources, the BCG decided that in between now and November, it will focus on three sub-themes: Food Insecurity, water scarcity and Contamination by remnants of war.

The members of the Bonn Contact Group are organised in three task forces, dealing with the three sub themes. Their job is to prepare reports on the three sub-themes that will help inform discussions and decisions.

• To gather expertise on their topic of interest with a view to preparing, by September 2024, a report of a sufficiently robust level to feed into the discussions of the COP29 meeting.

• To engage with the COP Troika countries and other state and non-state parties on the theme in the run-up to the COP29 in Baku and beyond, and to support the holding of a day of peace within the context of COP29 in November in Baku.