Jan 12 2010
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
Dec 07 2009
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,
Oct 28 2009
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
Oct 26 2009
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,
Sep 22 2009
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
May 08 2008
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
May 07 2008
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
May 07 2008
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:
Former senior advisor to the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Nick Mabey, warns that governments and businesses
Apr 23 2008
The multiplying security implications of climate change were increasingly acknowledged during 2007. Now, E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey has authored a report for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) which sets out how the security sector can not only respond to the increasing threats, but also become part of the solution.
Published as Whitehall Paper 69 and available from Routledge, the
Nov 09 2007
The economics of climate change is lagging behind the science. We need to improve on this quickly if we are to take the right investment decisions.
So argues Nick Mabey in this E3G opinion article. A pdf download version is also published here.
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Fourth Assessment
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