Environment and Security Initiative The overall goal of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) is to contribute to the reduction of environment and security risks, and to the increased cooperation around environment and security issues in Eastern Europe, the Southern Caucasus and C
entral Asia. The ENVSEC Initiative supports the ?Security? and ?Energy + Environment? themes of the Wider Europe Initiative through identification, prevention and reduction of environmental conflicts and tensions over shared waters, ecosystems, sources of 
pollution and waste among and within the former Soviet republics and their neighbors. The purpose of the ENVSEC is to provide multi-stakeholder based analysis of environment and security risks as well as address the identified risks and environmental legac
ies in concerned areas. Activities include e.g. policy integration, vulnerability and risk assessments and hotspot risk mitigation.