Sustainability, Stability, Security - Why It Is Vital for Global Security and Stability to Tackle Climate Change and Invest in Sustainability
Publisher: World Wildlife Fund
Author(s): Antoine Meunier
Date: 2017
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Governance, Livelihoods
The present report, — “Sustainability, Stability, Security” — is an analysis of concrete situations based on existing sources. Drawing on the most recent IPCC report on climate change, it highlights the many consequences of climate change: rising sea levels, extreme weather events, water stress, land degradation and desertification, increased competition for resources, health hazards, and increased migrations. These hazards have historically destabilized entire regions, and will in the future continue to weaken the most vulnerable areas of the globe.
Climate change and security concerns are increasingly interlinked, and demand that appropriate policy responses and frameworks be adopted. Too often seen as a purely environmental issue, climate change tends to be filed away in the category of environmental risks. This report demonstrates that it is a global problem that impacts not only the environment but also the economy, the institutions, and society as a whole. It is therefore time to rethink security in a world in which climate change is a fact of life. This is the true meaning of the Sustainability-Stability-Security doctrine at the heart of this report.