Living in Peace in an Overheated World?, New Podcast Episode

The Paris Peace Forum is pleased to announce the release of a new episode of its podcast series 60' Diplo, dedicated to one of the most urgent challenges of our time: climate change in light of governance challenges and armed conflicts.

In this episode, our guests confront a defining tension of our era: as military budgets surge and geopolitical rivalries intensify, climate commitments are losing ground. How can the world pursue peace, social justice, and ecological transition when crises increasingly feed into one another?

A conversation on climate, conflict, and governance in a fractured world

The episode explores how climate disruption is reshaping geopolitical balances, acting as a powerful risk multiplier that exacerbates resource-driven tensions, social fragilities, and migration dynamics. From the environmental footprint of armed conflict to the challenges of maintaining international climate cooperation in an era of high-intensity warfare, the discussion examines what meaningful climate governance can look like today — and the role of states, territories, and civil society in making it possible.

Featuring

• Ronan Dantec, Senator for Loire-Atlantique and Vice-President of the Senate Committee on Regional Planning and Sustainable Development
• François Gemenne, specialist in the geopolitics of environment and migration, Lead Author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Professor at HEC and Director of The Hugo Observatory: Environment, Migration, Politics
• Justin Vaïsse, Founder and Director-General of the Paris Peace Forum, as moderator

The episode is available on the Paris Peace Forum's YouTube channel and on all major audio platforms.

What's next

Stay tuned for the next episode of 60' Diplo, to be released next month, which will take stock of the Paris Agreement ten years on — examining the growing deadlocks around COP30 and what a reinvented climate diplomacy could look like in an increasingly fractured world.