Climate change intensifies existing pressures and brings new challenges to global peace and security.

Climate change intensifies existing pressures and brings new challenges to global peace and security. Societies’ responses to climate impacts may exceed the global or regional capacity to manage those responses peacefully. This briefing reviews the ways climate change is challenging global security and the role the military can play in addressing that challenge. 

For more information: Significant impact of climate change for defence

Source: IPCC