How Efforts to Combat Climate Change Created New Security Challenges in the Arctic

Oct 21, 2021 | Andrew Latham
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In a little over a week, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold their annual meeting, dubbed COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. At that meeting, tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens will come together to discuss ways to build on the achievements and momentum of the historic 2015 Paris climate accords.

In one sense, this is simply another annual meeting of the UNFCCC. But most experts believe COP26 has a unique urgency. For as momentous as Paris was, there is broad agreement that countries must now go even further than they did at that previous summit if climate disaster is to be averted. In this sense, COP26 is viewed by many as a decisive moment in the effort to arrest climate change.