5 Reasons NATO Needs to Worry About Climate Change

Sep 1, 2014 | Responding to Climate Change
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Climate change is likely to receive scant attention at the 2014 NATO summit, which takes place in Newport, Wales, this week.

With Russia and the west snarling at each other, the gradual warming of the planet may seem like a problem for another day. But climate change is a security threat in itself, and not one that NATO should take lightly.

In 2010, NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen wrote: “Climate change presents security challenges of a magnitude and a complexity we have never seen before. We must be prepared for them.”