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Road to Copenhagen - 9 December
Climate Justice is the ‘make or break’ trigger that will make the historic conference succeed or fail.
This is the main message from the Road to Copenhagen Conference hosted by, Mary Robinson, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Margot Wallström in Malmö, Sweden and organised by GLOBE Europe, Club de Madrid and Respect.
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EVENTS
DELIVERING CLIMATE SECURITY: WHAT THE SECURITY COMMUNITY NEEDS FROM A GLOBAL CLIMATE REGIME
IES taking part in COP 15 Side Event
On 17 December, the IES is taking part in a side event organised jointly with E3G, Chatham House and the Energy and Security Initiative of Brookings. The panel, involving leading climate security experts, will seek to explore the impacts of climate change on national security and how the global climate regime can address this threat.
In recent years, the scientific community has expressed growing concerns over the security implications of climate change and its major long-term planetary environmental consequences. However, these possibilities are no longer a fear for the distant future.
Speaking at a side event on Climate Change and International Security organised by the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs on 15 December, Maj Gen (ret) Muniruzzaman, member of the CCTM Military Advisory Council, explained that, “Climate change is not just a threat multiplier, but also a threat generator.”
Download here the invitation for the upcoming side event
NEW STUDIES STRESS URGENCY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY DANGER FROM GLACIAL MELT AT THE THIRD POLE
Three new studies have confirmed both the reality and the potential for disaster of Glacial Melt in the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Tibetan Plateau
 Professor Geoffrey Boulton of the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh made a joint presentation with Tom Spencer of the IES on 10th November at a seminar organised by the Royal Society and Chatham House. Professor Boulton demonstrated the relationship between the Indian Monsoon and the snow field. He presented new data showing that 80-85% of the Ganges dry season flow is the result of ice and snow melt. His figures showed that there had been an 11% reduction in dry season flow in the last thirty years. He further presented data showing how the ice fields were retreating to ever higher levels in Nepal. Some of his slides can be seen on the here (PPT).
On the 7th December Nirj Deva, MEP, Vice President of the Development Committee of the European Parliament convened the first of a series of European Parliament seminars on the Challenges of Glacial Melt. The programme included a videoed interview with Professor Jean-Pascal Van Ypersele, Vice Chair of the IPCC who stressed the role of Black Carbon in accelerating the melting of the glaciers. Ambassadors from Bangladesh and Nepal underlined the urgency which their governments attached to this issue. Senior diplomats from China and India took part in the discussion. Three members of WWF Nepal then made a presentation on the Impact of Glacial Melt on their country.
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