Publication

This brief discusses the actions the UN Security Council (UNSC) might pursue to address climate-related security risks. It specifically looks at 1) the status of the global approach towards climate change risk management, as laid out by the 2015 Paris Agreement; 2) the history of climate security debates within the UNSC; 3) the approaches the Security Council has previously adopted towards conflict prevention and how they might apply to climate security; and 4) what actions the UNSC might take to deal more effectively with the security implications of climate change.