Delivering Climate Security
Presentations, briefing papers and event reports
By Nick Mabey
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
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By Nick Mabey
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.
Investing in the Economics of Climate Security
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Fourth Assessment
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By Quentin de Molliens
The Reuters website carries an article looking at the 2007 Ny-Ålesund Symposium on global climate change and the changing Arctic, which has just taken place close to the polar circle in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.
This was an international event held from 20-22 August where politicians and scientists from 13 nations met to discuss climate change issues.
In attendance at the seminar was
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By Chris Littlecott
Following hot on the heels of the first ever climate change debate at the UN Security Council, this week saw the continued rise of climate security as an issue of real concern to the international community.
On Tuesday, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies hosted the latest event in its Climate Security series. This time the event focused on the particular role
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By Quentin de Molliens
The Royal United Services Institute has started a series of events looking at the interrelationship of climate change and security concerns.
E3G founding director John Ashton spoke at the second of these in his role as Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign Office.
The event was entitled Climate Security in Asia, and was held at RUSI on the 24th of April.
John gave a
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By Marina Brutinel
It’s been a busy week on the climate security front, with the culmination of several important processes which we’ve been following closely over recent months.
On Monday, a panel of distinguished US Admirals and Generals launched their report on National Security and the Threat of Climate Change.
The same evening, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett gave a speech entitled Climate
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By Nick Mabey
On 6th March 2007, E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey gave a presentation on the theme of Climate Security: Opportunities and Challenges for the UK and India to the first of a series of interactive ‘Climate Conversation’ seminars organised by the Centre for Social Markets.
A pdf version of Nick’s presentation is attached for download.
The online version of The Hindu newspaper carries a report of
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By Chris Littlecott
Riots, looting, chaos, panic, curfews, wars and famine: what the security chiefs are not telling you about climate change
, declared the front page of New Statesman magazine at the end of January as it carried a special report on the impact of climate change.
The New Statesman’s series of articles on climate change opened with a statement of transatlantic interest, and possible political
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By Chris Littlecott
Back on September 21 2006 the Council on Foreign Relations hosted an excellent discussion on Climate Security: Risks and Opportunities for the Global Economy
Speaking at the event were
The Rt Hon Margaret Beckett, MP, UK Foreign Secretary
Jacques Aigrain, Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re
Mark Tercek, Managing Director, the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
In the Chair was Stephen W. Bosworth,
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By Chris Littlecott
“The first priority of any government is to provide the conditions necessary for security and prosperity in return for the taxes that citizens pay. Climate change is potentially the most serious threat there has ever been to this most fundamental of social contracts.”
That’s part of the hard-hitting political challenge that John Ashton has been discussing on his visit to Canada this past week.
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