Increasingly, climate change is seen as a global security problem. It would lead to conflicts about territory, water and other resources, and also to large scale migration. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs therefore wants to have climate as a topic on the agenda of the Security Council. They will plead for this when they get a temporary seat in the Security Council in 2018.
On Wednesday 13th of December, The Hague Talks and the Planetary Security Initiative will host an interactive debate at the Humanity House in The Hague. During this event, two climate and security experts from Darfur and Bangladesh, who will also be key speakers during the Planetary Security Conference, will talk about the influence of the climate on their home countries, and how they attempt to diminish the security risks. Awadalla Hamid Mohamed (Darfur) and Major General Anm Muniruzzaman (Bangladesh) are experts in the field of community mobilization for rural development and environmental conservation as well as in community capacity building with regards coping with climate change.
After, the importance of considering climate change a security problem will be discussed with both the speakers and the audience.
What is the impact of this framing upon the international approach to climate change? Should the Security Council indeed place the topic of climate on their agenda? And what else is needed to reduce the security risks of climate change?
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