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MILITARY EXPERTS FROM FIVE CONTINENTS WARN OF IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SECURITY
Joint Statement calls for ambitous and equitable international agreement on climate
A group of serving and retired military officers from Africa, Asia,
Europe, Latin America and the US released a statement calling on
all governments to “work for an ambitious and equitable international
agreement” at the global climate talks in Copenhagen in December.
The statement, presented on 29 October at the CCSC-III Conference at Brookings in
Washington, and issued simultaneously in Brussels, Dhaka, Georgetown,
London, New Delhi and The Hague, says that “incremental, and at times,
abrupt, climate change is resulting in an unprecedented scale of human
misery, loss of biodiversity and damage to infrastructure with
consequential security implications that need to be addressed urgently.”
The officers are members of the Military Advisory Council (MAC) of the project on Climate Change
and the Military led by the Institute for Environmental Security (IES) in partnership with 10 other think tanks from Asia, Europe and North
America.
IES Vice-Chair, Tom Spencer, former President of the European
Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights and Defence
Policy, said the aim of the statement was to stress that “climate
change creates a common security problem that requires global and
comprehensive co-operation.”
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