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Australia: A Climate Change Bellwether?
A 2012 report, Climate Change & International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether, from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), proposed that climatic and geopolitical trends in the Arctic region might be a signal of what is to come for the rest of the globe.
A recent article by Matt Siegel, Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come?, offers up a similar set of questions as the C2ES report, but for a very different geography. Instead of melting ice caps, Siegel points out the emerging trends in Australia for excruciating heat waves and devastating floods. Siegel quotes Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University Climate Change Institute: (more…)
Is Climate Change Driving a New South Pacific Security Architecture?
This is a cross-post by Nicholas Burke from Relief Analysis Wire.
Last week, an inaugural meeting of South Pacific defense ministers took place in Tonga–an initiative spearheaded by Australia. Present were Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, France, Chile, and (as an observer), the United States. Front and center on the agenda was collaboration on humanitarian and disaster relief operations, maritime surveillance, and plans to conduct joint exercises throughout the region. (more…)
Climate Change in Australia’s New National Security Strategy
The Australian government has just released its new national security strategy titled “Strong and Secure: A Strategy for Australia’s National Security.” Within its fifty-eight pages, the security challenge of climate change is featured under the heading of “broader global challenges with national security implications,” and described in the following way: (more…)
President Obama: America Must Lead on Addressing the Threat of Climate Change
If you played Joe Romm’s climate change inauguration drinking game, you may be too drunk to read this. President Obama devoted a long paragraph of his inaugural address to the issue, and stated emphatically that it was America’s responsibility to lead in combating the “threat” of climate change. (more…)