Climate Change: Climate Change Remains a Consistent Theme at Shangri-La Security Dialogue

Jun 19, 2018 | Steve Tebbe, Center for Climate and Security
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When Florence Parly, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, called to “disarm the climate” at this year’s IISS Shangri-La Dialogue (17^th Asia Security Summit), it helped exemplify how seriously the summit’s panelists were taking the security risks of climate change. The Dialogue continued the pattern of recent Shangri-La Dialogues and other security conferences, with a range of leading defense ministers and practitioners speaking on how the changing climate has impacted their security.