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Trip Report: Youth-Led Visions of a Climate-Secure Pacific
Climate change increasingly risks Pacific security and sovereignty on land and sea due to sea level rise, a warming ocean, disaster, and displacement. These challenges are no longer the problems of the future– they are some of the largest risks of today. Addressing these challenges requires understanding and partnership between the leaders of today and tomorrow. In building toward a better future, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), with support from the US Mission to New Zealand, launched the Youth-Led Visions of a Climate-Secure Pacific program, the second iteration of a young leaders program that started in 2023 with a NATO-focused cohort.
From left to right: videographer Mojeri Coker; Young Leaders Michael Chapman, Liam Clegg, Silas Zhang, and Conrad Johnie Ikaika Morgan; CCS Research Fellow Elsa Barron; and Young Leaders Kalita Titi Homasi, Georgia Nichols, and Hailey Campbell.
CCS selected seven young leaders for the program, based on their visions of a climate-secure Pacific shared in the video below. These included Hailey Campbell (United States), Michael Chapman (United States), Liam Clegg (Cook Islands/ Australia), Kalita Titi Homasi (New Zealand/ Tuvalu), Conrad Johnie Ikaika Morgan (United States), Georgia Nichols (United States), and Silas Zhang (New Zealand). You can find more information about the call for applications and read the bios of our selected young leaders on the program website.
Call for Applications: Youth-Led Visions for a Climate-Secure Pacific
By Elsa Barron
Climate change increasingly risks Pacific security and sovereignty on land and sea due to sea level rise, a warming ocean, disaster, and displacement. These challenges are no longer the problems of the future– they are some of the largest risks of today. Addressing these challenges in the Pacific will require understanding and partnership between the leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow. In building toward a better future, we are calling for perspectives from young people from Aotearoa New Zealand, Niue, the Cook Islands, and the United States on addressing interconnected climate and security challenges.
The Center for Climate and Security, with support from the U.S. Mission to New Zealand, is launching a call for video applications that answer the question: “What is your vision of a climate-secure Pacific?” Selected videos will be showcased as a part of a social media campaign and 6-8 winners will be invited on a fully-funded three-day trip to Wellington, New Zealand where they will have the chance to meet with policymakers, organizations, and community groups working on these issues and present their visions of a positive future. If you are selected, this program will help to build your public voice on climate risks and solutions and catalyze relationships between you and other like-minded young people around the world.
Read the full Call for Applications and apply here.
New Zealand Defence Leadership Meets with the Center for Climate and Security
The New Zealand Defence Minister’s team meets with leadership of the Center for Climate and Security and the Council on Strategic Risks and the
On January 25, New Zealand’s Minister of Defence Ron Mark, and a team of senior defense leaders including the New Zealand Secretary of Defence and Chief of the Navy, met with the Center for Climate and Security’s and Council on Strategic Risks’ leadership to discuss the security and military implications of climate change, and what the United States and New Zealand can learn from each other. This was part of Defence Minister Ron Mark’s visit to Washington, DC that included meeting with his counterpart, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. See the press release here. Click here for more on recent climate security actions by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence, and here for equivalent information on the U.S. Department of Defense.
New Zealand Defence Releases Climate Change Implementation Plan
On December 8, 2019, the New Zealand Minister of Defence Hon. Ron Mark, with Minister for Climate Change Hon James Shaw, released a Climate Change Implementation Work Plan for its defence force, titled Responding to the Climate Crisis: An Implementation Plan. The plan was co-produced by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force, and follows on the heels of the Defence Capability Plan released in June, which included the “Climate Crisis” as one of its key chapters. To read the full report, click here, and to read the press release, click here. A contact in the New Zealand Ministry of Defence sent along the following summary: (more…)