A Climate for Change in the UN Security Council? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus
Publisher: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Author(s): Judith Nora Hardt and Alina Viehoff
Date: 2020
Topics: Climate Change, Governance, Peace and Security Operations
To what extent do the 15 current member states of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) perceive climate change as a threat to their own security and security worldwide? To what extent do they integrate the climate change-security nexus – the multiple security threats posed by climate change – into their domestic and foreign policies and their respective positions in the UN? In the new IFSH Research Report, Dr. Judith Nora Hardt and Alina Viehoff present important research results on these questions. The analysis, which was elaborated with the support of a large international and interdisciplinary scientific network during the period December 2019 to April 2020, employs a broad understanding of security and focuses on traditional security actors as well as state actors.