Climate Change: A Security (Council) Issue?

Sindico, Francesco

doi:10.21552/cclr/2007/1/8

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“…To counter the security discourse on climate change, the Brazilian delegation for instance argued: '...utmost caution must be exercised in establishing links between conflict and the utilization of natural resources or the evolution of climate on our planet (UNSC, 2007: 20) '. Similar sceptical comments were made by other emerging developing countries, such as China and India, and has been supported by other developing countries who see climate change as a matter of sustainable development (Sindico, 2007). In particular, emerging developing countries with no special voting powers in the UN Security Council -such as India and Brazil -have been highly sceptical of these moves and thus prefer climate change to be discussed in forums where they do have decision-making power.…”

Section: Uk: a Security Narrative As A Diplomatic Strategy On Climatementioning

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Securitisation of Climate Change: The Risk of Exaggeration

Warner

Boas

2017

Ambient. soc.

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The present contribution focuses on the ‘selling’ of the ‘climate crisis’ to intended key audiences, both in the international domain and at home. We look into the mechanics of crisis framing, the audience, and the resonance that the frame had, as well as development over time in two cases: the UK addressing the UN Security Council and the State Advisory Commission on Deltas (‘Delta Commission’) seeking support in the Netherlands for drastic measures to address sea level rise. For this, we apply the conceptual framework from critical security studies and securitisation, with contributions from the domains of crisis and disaster studies. Both case studies discussed show a dramatic securitising move, where climate change is presented as the source of great potential crisis that will harm us all, unless we take urgent action - either for mitigation (the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions) or for adaptation.

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Section: Uk: a Security Narrative As A Diplomatic Strategy On Climatementioning

confidence: 67%

Securitisation of Climate Change: The Risk of Exaggeration

Warner

Boas

2017

Ambient. soc.

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“…Some of the vulnerable island states went further by arguing that climate change is already a security issue for them and that the Security Council should not only debate the problem but also act on it as soon as possible. The leading developing countries such as China, India, South Africa and Brazil and the G77 countries ( a group of 77 developing countries established on 15 June 1964 to promote its members' economic interests and enhance their negotiating capacity in the United Nations ) argue that climate change is not a security issue but a sustainable development issue (Sindico, 2007).…”

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Climate Change, Environmental Security and Global Justice

Salako¹

2017

ILR

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There is an international consensus that climate change is caused by human activities which substantially increase the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.The ill-effects of climate change are droughts which adversely affect the global poor who are engaged in agriculture; storm surges which destroy local infrastructure, housing and crops; and the rise of sea levels which adversely affect the inhabitants of small island states which could eventually be totally submerged. Military strategists and intelligence analysts are preparing for future conflicts likely to be caused by environmental security issues.The objects of this article are: (i) to evaluate the ill-effects of climate change as a matter of global justice, (ii) to consider whether future generations have the right not to suffer from the ill-effects of climate change, and if so, (iii) to evaluate the relevant conceptions of global justice, and (iv) to assess critically whether international law provides effective preventive responses to climate change and environmental security threats.Finally, a monist-naturalist conception of global justice privileging human dignity as one of its guiding principles is proffered as a solution to the problems raised by the mechanisms of dealing with the ill-effects of climate change and the attendant environmental security issues under international law.

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“…The realization of this scenario will force the international community to undertake deep changes in governance to deal with the ensuing challenges, e.g. through the establishment of a Climate Change Security Council (Sindico, 2007). In addition, there may be very large numbers of climate refugees, who would demand recognition by international law (Podesta and Ogden, 2008).…”

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The future of international climate change law: a scenario-based perspective

Larragán

2012

Climate Policy

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Although states and international organizations regularly rely on scenario modelling to plan for the future, it is not generally used in legal analysis. This article explores, in a preliminary fashion, whether (and if so how) the use of scenarios can illuminate such analyses. Five high-level scenarios concerning the future of international climate change law are developed, ranging from an optimistic scenario, in which there is coordinated mitigation between states within the confines of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to a pessimistic scenario, in which each state engages in its own autonomous adaptation to climate change. Some consequences for individual states of each scenario are then explored and some possible legal responses of states are developed. Governments should work together in mitigation and adaptation to achieve a global response to climate change, and should work to secure advantages in the carbon markets for their own companies, develop a geoengineering strategy, and be aware that recasting climate change as a security issue risks undermining the logic of global cooperation.

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Climate Change: A Security (Council) Issue?

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Securitisation of Climate Change: The Risk of Exaggeration

Securitisation of Climate Change: The Risk of Exaggeration

Climate Change, Environmental Security and Global Justice

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