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CSR Takes Main Stage at the 2026 Munich Security Conference
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), including its Center for Climate and Security (CCS), had several team members take the Main Stage at the Munich Security Conference last weekend. From the compounding effects of climate change to the new frontier of competition in outer space to the challenge of managing nuclear proliferation, CSR experts offered key observations and analysis as the world convenes to solve our most pressing security challenges.
A Peacekeeper’s Guide to the Galaxy? Relaunching Space Governance
CSR Chief Executive Officer Mallory Stewart joined government ministers from France and Germany, as well as private-sector leaders, to discuss the future of space security and the implications of emerging technologies for 21st-century space governance.
Mushrooming: Tackling Growing Nuclear-Proliferation Risks
CSR Board Member Rose Gottemoeller talked about the future of nuclear risk with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a leading member of the French National Assembly, and academic experts.
Degrees of Instability: Climate Security in a Warming World
CCS Director Erin Sikorsky moderated a Climate Security Town Hall among German, Indian, and US senior policymakers on how a changing climate and environmental conditions are reshaping and exacerbating global patterns of vulnerability and instability.
CCS Advances Climate and Food Security at the 2025 Munich Security Conference
By Erin Sikorsky and Siena Cicarelli
Last week, Center for Climate and Security (CCS) team members traveled to the 2025 Munich Security Conference (MSC) for a series of events on climate security, food security, and other converging risks. As MSC participants grappled with a potential transatlantic rift over Ukraine, the future of democracy, and the international liberal order, non-traditional “problems without passports” including climate change, food insecurity, and AI stubbornly insisted on a seat at the security table – with dozens of side events and mainstage conversations dedicated to tackling these topics. Participants recognized the challenges of the current moment, including the US retreat from international engagement on these topics, and discussed a variety of paths to continue progress, including stronger regional partnerships and new approaches to framing these issues for skeptical audiences. To that end, CCS hosted two official MSC side events dedicated to climate security challenges.
(more…)IMCCS and NATO at the Munich Security Conference on the Eve of Conflict: Addressing Catastrophic Risks
By Elsa Barron
The threat of a likely Russian invasion of Ukraine hung over the recent 2022 Munich Security Conference, held from February 18-20. Events and discussions regarding NATO’s role in responding to this immediate geopolitical, and potential humanitarian, crisis were many. Devastatingly, these conversations that were at the time hypothetical are now coming to pass.
Other cross-cutting crises, and NATO’s role in addressing them, were also discussed in depth – including the security risks of a changing climate. In that context, the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS) was honored to partner with NATO to host an event titled: “An Adaptation Battle Plan: Implementing Climate Security Action.” Speakers included The Honorable Anita Anand, Canadian Minister of National Defense, The Honorable Baiba Braže, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, General Tom Middendorp, Chief of Defense of the Netherlands (Ret) and Chair of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS), and The Honorable David van Weel, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges.
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