Delivering Climate Security
Presentations, briefing papers and event reports
By Nick Mabey
The UK is facing unprecedented new energy challenges and will be unable to secure its future power supplies or a stable climate by acting alone, according to a new report by Chatham House.
Written by Nick Mabey of E3G and John Mitchell of Chatham House, “Investing for an uncertain future: Priorities for UK energy and climate security” addresses energy security and climate security as
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By Nick Mabey
The impacts from climate change on instability and security are already being felt from the Sahel to the Arctic. Even under the most optimistic global greenhouse gas abatement scenarios impacts will continue to worsen for forty years. Without efforts to limit global temperature rises well below 2°C there is a high risk of catastrophic climatic changes in all regions resulting in large-scale
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By Katherine Silverthorne
Despite the logistical nightmare that was COP15, Brookings Institution, Chatham House, E3G and Institute for Environmental Security held an off-site “official side event” on climate and security for a full house of COP15 participants on December 17th.
Though UN climate change negotiations have been ongoing for more than two decades, discussions about how climate change impacts global
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By Nick Mabey and Katherine Silverthorne
Join leading climate security experts for a COP15 side event exploring climate change impacts on national security and how the global climate regime can address this threat.
Entitled “Delivering Climate Security: What the security community needs from a global climate regime”, this side event will be held from noon - 1:30pm on December 17th at Café A Porta eta 1792, Kongens Nytorv 17,
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By Nick Mabey and Katherine Silverthorne
On October 22nd, E3G convened a roundtable discussion in Washington entitled ‘What the Security Community needs from Copenhagen’. This was the 3rd in the series of workshops involving security and climate experts from the U.S. and Europe to explore how to construct a systematic risk management approach to climate change.
The UNFCCC’s December meeting in Copenhagen must deliver the
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By Nick Mabey
The reality of climate change will require fundamental changes in how international relations are conducted; it will alter much of the focus of international policy and require changes in a wide range of global governance institutions.
It will change strategic interests, alliances, borders, threats, economic relationships, comparative advantages and the nature of international co-operation,
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By Katherine Silverthorne
E3G hosted a thinking event in early September in London and Washington to discuss systematic risk management approaches to climate change. This was the first of a series of workshops with security and climate experts from the U.S. and Europe to explore how to construct a systematic risk management approach to climate change.
The aim of these series is to produce an outline for a paper on risk
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By Nick Mabey
The reality of climate change will require fundamental changes to the practice of international relations.
Impacting on strategic interests, alliances, borders, threats, economic relationships, comparative advantages and the nature of international cooperation, climate change geopolitics will extend far outside the environment sphere, and will link old problems in new ways. Managing the
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By Nick Mabey
Until very recently Climate Protection and Energy Security have been viewed as largely contradictory or separate objectives. This week saw the Athens Summit on Climate Change and Energy Security strive to overthrow this zero-sum mentality.
E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey has been a member of the advisory board planning the summit, and also contributed a major presentation for the session “The
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By E3G Editor
Following on from the publication of Nick Mabey’s report ‘Delivering Climate Security’, BusinessGreen.com have interviewed Nick on the topic, including discussion of the implications for business. The full interview follows below:
“Climate Change represents an existential threat”
Former senior advisor to the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Nick Mabey, warns that governments and businesses
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