Keynote Address: Moving From Climate Change as a `Threat Multiplier’ to Climate Action as a `Peace Multiplier’


Publisher: The Wilson Center

Author(s): Sherri Goodman

Date: 2024

Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Cooperation

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On June 19, 2024, Wilson Center Fellow Sherri Goodman delivered a keynote address at the Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding in The Hague, Netherlands. Her remarks were on the occasion of receiving the Environmental Peacebuilding Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented at the conference. In her address, Goodman focused on the evolution of climate security and moving from climate change as a security risk to leveraging climate action for peace. Below are her remarks as delivered.