Why the UN Security Council Can’t Keep Ignoring Climate-Driven Conflict

Jun 8, 2022 | Jamal Benomar
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The UN Security Council’s raison d’être is to maintain international peace and security. The war in Ukraine has exposed its inability to fulfil that core purpose.

As we approach the next UN climate summit, Cop27 in Egypt, the Security Council’s impotence will again be laid bare. Climate-driven conflict poses the greatest threat to global security in the 21st century, yet the Security Council reflects only the preoccupations of when it was founded in 1945. It must now be reformed to meet the challenges of today.