Environment, Climate Change and Security - Facing the Challenges

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Dr. Ania Grobicki, Global Water Partnership and Dr. Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies discussing the challenges concerning water security. 

On the Conference on October 14-15 the linkage between climate change and security in the broadest sense of the term were highlighted and addressed. The Stockholm Conference should be seen as a stepping stone on the road to Copenhagen and beyond and aimed to increase our understanding of the challenges and contribute to the search for solutions.

The conference brought together a wide international audience policymakers and experts from almost all EU Member States and representatives from e.g. the African continent, Australia, China, Russia and US as well as participants from civil society and research institutes.

International speakers were giving their view on the linkages between development, conflict and climate change and how we can face the challenges.

Read the speakers presentations and abstracts

The Copenhagen Summit in December 2009 will focus the world’s attention on climate change and the need to curb global warming through multilateral negotiations. The linkage between climate change and security is an issue of growing urgency in this context. The European Council has welcomed the joint report by the High Representative and the Commission on  “Climate Change and International Security” and in September the Secretary General presented a report on Climate Change and Security. At issue is the relationship between climate change, population growth, diminishing natural resources and the implications for security within and between countries. Read more about the Copenhagen Summit.