Is Climate Change a Threat to International Peace and Security?
Publisher: Michigan Journal of International Law
Author(s): Mark Nevitt
Date: 2021
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Governance
This article argues that climate change’s destabilizing impacts require us to look at existing international governance tools at our disposal with fresh eyes. As such, Council climate action cannot and should not be dismissed out-of-hand. As conflicts rise, migration explodes, and nations are extinguished, how long can the Council remain on the climate sidelines? Hence, my call for a re-conceptualized “Council 3.0” to meet the climate-security challenges this century.