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  • Climate Change Will Threaten Global, European Security, Says EU Report

    March 11, 2008 By Rachel Weisshaar
    A European Union (EU) report released ahead of a major EU summit on March 13-14 warns that climate change is likely to create or worsen a host of local, regional, and global security challenges. “Climate change is best viewed as a threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability,” says the report.

    Reiterating conclusions other climate-security reports have drawn, the report argues that shrinking per capita supplies of water, food, energy, and other natural resources could generate political, economic, and social unrest, as well as large-scale migration—much of it from developing countries to European ones.

    The report, written by Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European commissioner for external relations, also warns that as the polar ice cap in the Arctic melts and exposes previously unnavigable shipping routes and large unclaimed oil and natural gas reserves, it could trigger new geopolitical rivalries.
    Topics: Arctic, climate change, foreign policy, migration, security
    • Anonymous

      The climate change/national security subject deserves a very close look. I think we’ll be hearing the term “threat multiplier” quite a lot in the next few months. Mass migration due to environmental degradation, resource competition over diminishing supplies of oil, water and arable land, and a serious strain on modern institutional capacity.

    • http://www.blogger.com/profile/15130206644052866501 Rachel Weisshaar

      This story from the Christian Science Monitor describes the concerns (including climate-induced migration) discussed at the first day of the EU meeting.

    • http://www.blogger.com/profile/11848399296274547272 Rita Floyd

      For the full report see:

      http://www.euractiv.com/29/images/SolanaCCsecurity%20reportpdf_tcm29-170886.pdf

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