Public Participation: A Counter to Climate Policy Backdraft?

Jun 21, 2022 | Kidan Araya
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In an increasingly unpredictable world of pandemics, conflict, and disasters, climate change is often at the center of conversations about the instability of global affairs. From California wildfires to droughts across East Africa, the role of climate cannot be ignored in any analysis of global unpredictability. And citizens around the world know it. Growing global public support for governments to aggressively act on climate change has led to an increase in policy action on climate issues.

A climate security framework provides an example of one key lens to confront global climate change challenges. Climate security has emerged in recent years to make the case for climate change as a geopolitical risk and security threat multiplier. Seeing climate change through this lens should motivate countries to act immediately on climate for the sake of national security.