On the 5th and 6th of December 2016, Dr. Tobias Schmitz and Nynke Schaap will attend the Planetary Security Conference at the Peace Palace in the Hague, the Netherlands. The Planetary Security Initiative was lauched by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with a consortium of six key organisations and aims to build bridges between individuals and institutions working on global environmental stresses on the one hand, and individuals and institutions working on human security on the other hand. The conference links environmental pressure to security issues and has the ambition to build an alliance of organisations working on the linkage between these themes.  Water security is an important theme at this conference, including themes such as climate resilience and transboudary cooperation