No. 26: Climate Change and Security Policy

Author(s): Christiane Callsen
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 26
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2007

The emerging changes in the global climate are also a challenge for security policy. While global warming is unlikely to be an immediate cause of conflicts, it threatens to accentuate a number of existing threats and risks in the developing world and in industrialized nations alike. Strengthening the governance capabilities of weak states will continue to gain importance in security-policy terms. The civil-military stabilization even of distant conflict zones is, more than ever, a matter of paramount importance for the domestic security of Europe and the US.

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