Feb 28 2007
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
Feb 27 2007
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,
Feb 16 2007
“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.
Feb 06 2007
Mainstream media interest in the issue of Climate Security was evident following the discussion at the Royal United Services Institute last month.
The very same evening Channel 4 News included a report entitled ‘Climate change security fears’.
Posing the question “Will the security implications of climate change prompt an agreement on global warming?”, the report featured an interview with
May 17 2005
Manmade climate change threatens civilisation itself. It can be solved, but only with a vast mobilisation of human knowledge, technology and capital, say John Ashton and Tom Burke of E3G in an article published by Open Democracy.
During the cold war the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of a metaphorical clock towards or away from midnight depending on the state of relations
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