Climate Risk Management for the Defence and Intelligence Communities
What should national governments and national security structures be doing to effectively address climate security risks? This working group will outline best practices around military-to-military engagement, data-sharing on climate security risk assessments and other types of action relevant to governments formulating policy responses to climate security risks. Participants will also identify specific ways to improve climate security risk management for national security structures and regional security bodies in non-OECD countries. Working group participants will develop strategies for overcoming barriers to effective climate security risk management within each of these policy and governance contexts that can provide a template for action over the coming three years of the PSI, as well as define longer-term goals.
Objectives
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Outline what a comprehensive response to climate security risks could and should look like, for national governments and national security structures, that is broadly applicable across most OECD countries
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Identify specific ways to improve climate security risk management for national security structures and regional security bodies in Africa and Asia
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Develop strategies for overcoming barriers to effective climate security risk management within each of these policy and governance contexts, that can provide a template for action over the three years of the PSI, as well as define longer-term goals. These strategies will also be circulated to members of the security community who are unable to attend the PSI conferences in The Hague
Co-organised by
Working Group Contact
Shiloh Fetzek (The Center for Climate and Security)