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The project Amazonia Security Agenda (ASA) identified how climate change exacerbates food, water, energy, and health security in the Amazon region and the impacts of climate change beyond the borders and highlights the interdependency between these securities. The project’s approach defines climate change as a “threat multiplier”, exacerbating traditional threats and generating new threats to food, water, energy, and health security in the region as well as beyond the region. This project was mainly focusses on Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.

The overarching objectives were to provide a set of policy recommendations aimed at multi-sectorial decision makers, reframing climate in the development agenda and focusing on regional cooperation, highlighting the potential to shift from a threat multiplier to an opportunity multiplier. The project’s goals were: I) assess the science evidence base for the food, water, energy and health security risks in the Amazon region and the threat posed by climate change, II) engage regional policymakers in a dialogue on the...