EU External Action Service High level event on Climate, Peace and Security, Friday, 22 June in Palais d’Egmont, Brussels

This is a crosspost from the Planetary Security Initiative

Taking Action on Climate Security: An unprecedented high level event in Brussels

On 22 June, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini hosted an unprecedented high level event – Climate, Peace and Security: The Time for Action. The meeting highlighted the urgency and the need to tackle the risk that climate change poses to security and peace. The focus of the debate was on the need to introduce policy change to integrate the climate-security nexus into risks analysis, policies and missions. Ahead of the meeting PSI published two publications, one focusing on how the EU can implement a responsibility to prepare and one on what the EU can do to address the climate-security nexus in Iraq and Mali.  (more…)