Course on Climate Change: Security Challenges and Solutions


Oct 12, 2015 - Sep 16, 2015 | Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Geneva, Switzerland
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Climate change has the potential to be the greatest security threat in this century. It is considered a multiplier of a range of security threats from conflict exacerbation to migration, water, food and health security. This course is designed to equip participants with both conceptual and practical tools for understanding climate change and its impact on the global, regional and local security environment and devises possible solutions to address it as a multifaceted challenge.

Key benefits for you

The course will enable you to:

  • Deepen your understanding of the main challenges posed by climate change and examine the inter-linkages between climate change and other security threats;

  • Develop capacity to respond more effectively to climate change challenges as policy makers and practitioners;

  • Evaluate the strengths and limitations of existing responses and articulate more effective alternatives;

  • Exchange views among peers and experienced experts and practitioners in a neutral and open environment.

Why you should attend:

This course uniquely offers an opportunity to unpack climate change as a security challenge and to understand its links with other threats to security on the global, regional and local level. Participants will be provided with tools in designing policies aimed at dealing with consequences of, and solutions to, an increasingly extreme climate. 

Course Focus

Analysis

  • Climate change challenges to security

  • Inter-linkages between climate change and other threats to security

Solutions

  • Review of existing traditional responses to climate change

  • Review of new, cutting-edge solutions to climate change