UN Security Council: playing a role in the international climate change regime?

Cousins, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/14781158.2013.787058

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“…Where states in the 2011 debate were explicit about the type of role they envisaged the UNSC playing, it was mainly to do with monitoring and anticipating threats. 74 It is possible that if the Secretary General were to consider, 'on a case-by-case basis, the climate change-related factors relevant to each of the country or thematic reports' in each report submitted to the Security Council, 75 this would lead to greater awareness of the issues, probably weakening resistance to a Council role and rendering more likely the inclusion of climate changerelated contextual information in UNSC resolutions. 76 So far as the 'conscious but measured' category of response is concerned, the links between adaptation and successful peacebuilding offer a number of promising lines of policy and research to build on the work already undertaken on environmental peacekeeping.…”

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Insights from past millennia into climatic impacts on human health and survival

McMichael

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, and survival via weather extremes and climatic impacts on food yields, fresh water, infectious diseases, conflict, and displacement. Paradoxically, these risks to health are neither widely nor fully recognized. Historical experiences of diverse societies experiencing climatic changes, spanning multicentury to single-year duration, provide insights into population health vulnerability-even though most climatic changes were considerably less than those anticipated this century and beyond. Historical experience indicates the following. (i) Long-term climate changes have often destabilized civilizations, typically via food shortages, consequent hunger, disease, and unrest. (ii) Medium-term climatic adversity has frequently caused similar health, social, and sometimes political consequences. (iii) Infectious disease epidemics have often occurred in association with briefer episodes of temperature shifts, food shortages, impoverishment, and social disruption. (iv) Societies have often learnt to cope (despite hardship for some groups) with recurring shorterterm (decadal to multiyear) regional climatic cycles (e.g., El Niño Southern Oscillation)-except when extreme phases occur. (v) The drought-famine-starvation nexus has been the main, recurring, serious threat to health. Warming this century is not only likely to greatly exceed the Holocene's natural multidecadal temperature fluctuations but to occur faster. Along with greater climatic variability, models project an increased geographic range and severity of droughts. Modern societies, although larger, better resourced, and more interconnected than past societies, are less flexible, more infrastructure-dependent, densely populated, and hence are vulnerable. Adverse historical climate-related health experiences underscore the case for abating human-induced climate change.paleoclimate | analogue | under-nutrition | pandemic

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Insights from past millennia into climatic impacts on human health and survival

McMichael

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

146

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“…27 The UN Security Council has met three times to address climate change -in 2007, 2011 and 2013 -suggesting some increased demand for it to play a role in enforcing solutions. 28 However, as a practical matter, the council is not likely to authorise the use of force for these purposes, not least because three of the five permanent members are a major part of the problem. 29 During these Security Council sessions, the main resistance came from China and Russia, and these two would almost certainly veto any council resolutions calling for the use of coercive measures to address threats to the climate, and ipso facto to international peace.…”

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Coercing Climate Action

Gilley¹,

Kinsella²

2015

Survival

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“…36,[46][47][48] With regard to trends and patterns of IGO discourse on climate security, there is mostly evidence on organizations dealing with state security. The UNSC has increasingly acknowledged the link between climate change and security, 30,[49][50][51][52] with studies focusing particularly on the debates after the very first debate on climate security in 2007. 53,54 Interestingly, while observers and states remain divided about whether the UNSC is the right forum for discussions on climate change, there is an emerging consensus that the UNSC should address climate change issues.…”

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Intergovernmental organizations and climate security: advancing the research agenda

Dellmuth

Gustafsson

Bremberg

et al. 2017

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate-related security challenges are transnational in character, leading states to increasingly rely on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)-such as the European Union and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization-for policy solutions. While climate security issues do not typically fit comfortably within the mandates of existing IGOs, recent decades have seen increasing efforts by IGOs to link climate change and security. This article reviews existing studies on IGOs' responses to climate security challenges. It draws together research from several bodies of literature spanning political science, international relations, and environmental social science, identifying an emerging field of research revolving around IGOs and climate security. We observe significant advancement in this young field, with scholars extending and enriching our understanding of how and why IGOs address climate security challenges. Yet we still know little about the conditions under which IGOs respond to climate security challenges and when they do so effectively. This article discusses the main gaps in current work and makes some suggestions about how these gaps may be usefully addressed in future research. A better understanding of the conditions under which IGOs respond (effectively) to climate security challenges would contribute to broader debates on climate security, institutional change, and effectiveness in international relations and environmental social science, and may facilitate crafting effective global solutions to society's most intractable climate security challenges.© 2017 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. How to cite this article:WIREs Clim Change 2018, 9:e496. doi: 10.1002/wcc.496 INTRODUCTION S ocieties worldwide are currently being confronted by a new class of security challenges posed by climate change. Climate change is undermining the security of states and people in ways that are unprecedented in complexity and spatial reach. 1 Although there is ongoing academic debate about the causal linkages from climate change to conflict, [2][3][4][5][6] researchers and policymakers widely agree that climate change has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities in already unstable regions by shaping social, The copyright line in this article was changed on 22 January 2018 after online publication. Conflict of interest:The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article. political, and economic circumstances. [7][8][9][10] As climate security challenges are typically transnational in character, states are increasingly relying on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) such as the European Union (EU), the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), that is, formal, multilateral, or bureaucratic arrangements established to further cooperation among states (Ref 11,, for policy solutions. [12][13][14][15][16] Research on the mandates, behavior, and effectiveness of IGOs in addressing climate security challenges has burgeoned in response. ...

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UN Security Council: playing a role in the international climate change regime?

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Insights from past millennia into climatic impacts on human health and survival

Insights from past millennia into climatic impacts on human health and survival

Coercing Climate Action

Intergovernmental organizations and climate security: advancing the research agenda

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