The possibility of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) engaging climate change is not one new to academic discourse. Since at least 1992 the UNSC has been examined as a means in which to provide renewed impetus to the climate change response agenda. Despite this, there has been very little progress in terms of UNSC engagement. One reason for this advocated by Conca et al., is that when states and other interested parties argue for a climate change intervention they do so with a lack of clarity as to what form it should take and what benefits might follow. This paper intends to address this particular aspect of the debate and pose pragmatic answers to why the UNSC should engage, how it could engage, and what benefit it could bring to the climate change regime.
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