Delivering Climate Security
Presentations, briefing papers and event reports
By Claire Langley and Gouri Shukla
The Department of Defense is rapidly emerging as the leading force in the United States for the development and use of renewable energy technologies. Energy efficiency has emerged as mission essential to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Why? How do these technologies improve national security? How do they make our military more effective? Will renewable energy and energy
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By Nick Mabey and Katherine Silverthorne
Current responses to climate change are failing to manage effectively the full range of climate security risks. There is a mismatch between the analysis of the severity of climate security threats and the political, diplomatic, policy and financial investment countries expend to avoid the attendant risks.
E3G’s latest report, Degrees of Risk: Defining a Risk Management Framework for Climate
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By Nick Mabey
Nick Mabey’s recently participated at the Halifax Forum set in Nova Scotia, Canada towards which he contributed a paper on taking a holistic approach to climate security.
Hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States in cooperation with the Government of Canada, the conference attracted the foremost security policymakers, defense and military representatives, and analysts from
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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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