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Risks of Response: Climate Security, Climate Policy & Farmer Protests in Europe
By Siena Cicarelli and Erin Sikorsky
While much climate security analysis focuses on the direct and indirect security risks of climate hazards themselves, there is a third category of risk that receives comparatively less attention but has profound implications for the future of climate action. This category can be termed “risks of response” or the security dynamics of the ways in which governments and societies respond to the challenges posed by climate change. Both positive (policies to curb emissions) and negative (xenophobic policies to block climate-driven migration) responses to climate change can contribute to instability and security risks.
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Security and climate change implications for humanitarian, development and peace-building programmes in Somalia
As part of the project ‘Catalysing cohesive action on climate and security: bridging silos for enhanced humanitarian action’ for USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, ODI and the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) hosted a workshop 3–4 October 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss challenges and opportunities across climate adaptation, security, development and humanitarian aid to deliver climate-resilient development.
The project aims to develop policy recommendations to make humanitarian assistance more sensitive to long-term climate risk and security dynamics. A group of select and highly experienced stakeholders with interests in Somalia were brought together to explore how actors can take more coordinated, coherent approaches that meet immediate needs while also contributing to longer-term climate resilience and stability, and strengthen the use of conflict and climate risk assessment to make investments and actions more effective.
Event Summary: Feeding Resilience and the House Climate Solutions Caucus
By Patricia Parera and John Conger
On December 1, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) held a policy briefing with the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus, to discuss the recent report, Feeding Resilience, which explores the nexus of climate change, food insecurity and national security and presents policy recommendations for the United States for addressing those issues.
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Giving Tuesday and CSR Successes in 2023
Friends and Colleagues,
At the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), we have continued to expand our activities, our team, and our impact through 2023. Today, I’d like to share some of our accomplishments with you—and thank you, our supporters, networks, and participants in our efforts. Here are just a few of CSR’s 2023 highlights:
Creating New Tools to Help Understand & Address Systemic Global Risks. In June, CSR’s Center for Climate and Security (CCS) launched its Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker, a first-of-its-kind effort to quantitatively track and qualitatively understand the security implications of the growing demand for military humanitarian assistance and disaster relief around the globe. Meanwhile, in September CCS launched two interactive reports that help visualize climate security impacts in Turkey and Iran, continuing an innovative partnership with the Woodwell Climate Research Center, and briefed key Executive Branch officials and bipartisan Congressional staff on the findings.
In September, CSR’s Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons launched the CSR Biodefense Scorecard through which we track where stronger policy development is occurring or lagging, and highlight markers of policy implementation. In the coming weeks, the Nolan Center will release two additional open-access tools: a biodefense budget tracker to serve as a companion to the Scorecard; and The Nuclear Weapon Systems Project, a qualitative approach to portray data and visualize how the types of nuclear capabilities fielded in the world have evolved since the advent of these weapons.
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