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Climate Finance, Food Security, and Cracks in the Transatlantic Alliance at COP28: Recommendations for the Global Stocktake
This blog post is part of the Nexus25 project, a joint initiative of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and the Center for Climate and Security, focused on sustainable multilateralism, and supported by Stiftung Mercator.
In the runup to the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate change’s role in complex security and humanitarian crises is continuing to challenge the capacity and ambition of the international community. As perhaps the most contentious issue in global climate action, climate finance is rightly a top priority for advocates and world leaders in Dubai.
While most member states recognize that climate change is driving, and will continue to drive, migration and food insecurity, and is disproportionately impacting marginalized populations, climate finance is a glaring gap in their policies and plans to respond to the resulting threats. The massive injection of funding required and the domestic politics that continue to stymie investment from world leaders is a critical barrier to meeting countries’ emissions and resilience goals, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). In this context, we recommend three key priorities in the leadup to COP28: finding new approaches to climate finance; improving messaging on the urgency of the climate threat; and repairing transatlantic relations to show leadership.
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Event Summary: Implications for NATO of Climate Security Scenarios in the Balkans
An exercise conducted with the Halifax Peace with Women Fellowship 2023
By Lily Boland
On October 30, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) led a scenario exercise on climate security for the new class of the Halifax Peace with Women Fellowship, which convenes senior female military leaders from NATO and partner countries for a 3-week executive tour of the political and technological capitals of the United States and Canada. The exercise sought to socialize a better understanding of how climate change hazards shape security risks in a region of importance to the NATO alliance (in this case, the Balkans) and help identify ways in which NATO, partner countries, and their militaries can better prepare for and prevent these risks. Participants included the fellows class along with officials from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Force Education & Training and Office of Arctic and Global Resilience.
CSR Welcomes New Research Fellows
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is pleased to announce a new round of hires across its programs. CCS added expertise across several of its portfolios, bringing on Siena Cicarelli and Ethan Wong to expand its coverage of the security threats posed by climate change, including their intersection with Arctic policy, food security, and the transatlantic relationship.
Siena joins CCS as a Research Fellow supporting the Nexus25 project, a CCS/Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) initiative focused on sustainable multilateralism. She previously covered transatlantic security and international humanitarian policy for the U.S. Department of Defense, Center for American Progress, and Eurasia Group.
Ethan previously worked on environmental, climate, and international security issues at The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At CCS, he will support a range of climate security projects as a Research Fellow, such as the Climate Security Fellowship and the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker.
China and Ecological Security: The seeds of conflict, or the roots of détente?
As China and the United States continue to compete in many domains, ecological security may be an opportunity for cooperation. China’s impact on ecological security internally and externally can either be a geopolitical liability or a source of legitimacy. Together, these titanic countries could spur a reformation of global governance around agriculture, and trade in wild animals and plants. Such cooperation could improve food security and resilience while boosting sustainability and combating the climate and biodiversity crises–not to mention reducing the possibility of regional or global conflict.
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