Climate Change: Security Council Sees Climate Change as a ‘Risk Multiplier’

Sep 23, 2021 | Environment News Service
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“The climate crisis isn’t coming. It’s already here,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the United Nations Security Council today in a special meeting on climate and international security. Blinken pointed to the disastrous impacts of the changing climate on human beings. “The consequences are falling disproportionately on vulnerable and low-income populations. And they’re worsening conditions and human suffering in places already afflicted by conflict, high levels of violence, instability.”