Climate change has become such a major factor of global instability that even the UN Security Council has added it to its agenda. 

At the UN Environment Assembly taking place in Nairobi this week, experts including Christophe Hodder, climate peace and security advisor to UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), have been meeting to discuss the complex link between climate change and conflicts. 

Mr. Hodder highlighted the environmental damage caused by war and its consequences, explaining to UN News' Anton Uspensky the vicious circle that is created by conflict and a warming planet as it “affects ecosystems, human health and climate”.