Alliance for Peacebuilding
Alliance for Peacebuilding
4 November 2025
As countries adapt to more variable rainfall among other key environmental challenges, resilience-building and cooperation will prove key in preventing large scale ecological displacement and conflict.
To that end, please join us as we unpack key findings from the 2025 Ecological Threat Report (ETR)—a comprehensive, data-driven global assessment of ecological risks produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. The ETR covers 3,125 sub-national areas in 172 countries and territories, representing more than 99 per cent of the world's population. It measures four interlocking threats: water risk, food insecurity, the impact of natural events, and demographic pressure. The 2025 ETR is the first edition of the report to include time series data. Covering changes between 2019 and 2024, it gives a view into the year-on-year volatility of ecological threats, many of which stand to be further impacted by Climate Change.
The ETR aims to capture human communities' complex relationships with the natural environment – specifically as they relate to resource scarcity, climatic shocks, and the ways in which growing populations can exacerbate existing stresses. It provides a foundation for debate about the ecological threats facing countries and subnational areas, with an aim to inform the design of resilience-building policies. The report also highlights areas that are improving which are often overlooked in ecological assessments. These places can provide useful insights into areas that are more conducive to investment and building peace
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