The Geo Political Climate for Climate Change: Europe's evolving approach to climate, peace and security
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This document summarizes a presentation given by Céline Charveriat of IEEP on Europe's evolving approach to climate, peace and security. It discusses how pressure on natural resources is increasingly seen as a security challenge and how climate change is recognized as a contributing factor to conflicts. It also outlines IEEP's recommendations for the EU to adopt a more comprehensive and prevention-oriented approach to these issues through policies integrating environmental risks, climate diplomacy, and development assistance.
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The Geo Political Climate for Climate Change: Europe's evolving approach to climate, peace and security
- 1. The Geo Political Climate for Climate Change: Europe’s evolving approach to climate, peace and security Céline Charveriat, IEEP Global Think Tank Summit 2018 Thursday 8th November 2018
- 2. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu Environment and Security • Pressure on and competition over natural resources is increasingly considered as one of the key peace and security challenges of the 21st century: 3 planet earths needed by 2050 if 10 billion people adopt European lifestyles. • Percolating to decision-makers: Increasing recognition by UNSC that climate change and environmental degradation are contributing factors. E.g. G7/UNSC action for Lake Chad. • Progress in knowledge: multidisciplinary research for assessing risk: e.g. composite climate vulnerability index *. * Composite vulnerability - model 1. Climate-Related Hazard Exposure + Population Density + Household & Community Resilience + Governance.
- 3. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu The European Context: a rapidly changing picture • Growing emphasis on climate diplomacy and increasing awareness of the environment as contributing factor to instability, population movements and war • Building of a common European defence: tectonic shifts following changes in policy in the US and Brexit • Forthcoming SDG reflection paper: reframing Europe’s agenda ahead of Sibiu? • Changing nature of ODA: access to energy for all; resilience strategy for fragile states; climate finance; migration control; securitisation • Upcoming elections: politicized issue of migration and climate change
- 4. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu Environment and security - EU • The EU Global Strategy (2016) - a good basis for the integration of environment into security, paving the way towards a more holistic regime and interaction between the foreign, security and defence elements of the policy framework. • Integration of environment into the EU foreign, defence and security frameworks plays a critical role in enabling EU to make good on its promise to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals • A prevention-oriented, holistic and ecosystem-based approach to security questions supports the delivery of multiple SDGs beyond the dedicated goal on peaceful societies (SDG16) including SDGs on hunger, water, climate and ecosystem conservation.
- 5. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu #think2030 Recommendations on Peace and Security • Adopt a comprehensive horizon scanning and early warning system for environmental and climate change risks for Europe’s neighborhood and other regions of strategic interest. • Broaden the scope and increase the ambition of European climate diplomacy. • Integrate a peace and security lens within flagship environmental policies. • Adopt dedicated initiative(s) to improve the awareness and capacity of the EU and Member States defense sectors (e.g. military forces) regarding the role of climate and environment in conflict prevention and resolution. • Harness Europe’s development assistance for sustainability worldwide by • Targeting EU external assistance based on the status of SDG delivery in third countries. • Integrating a stronger resource-efficiency dimension in Europe’s ODA • Exploring how to strengthen and then operationalise the EU’s action plan for resilience.
- 6. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu Harnessing European policies for environmental and climate risk reduction in Africa • Do one’s homework (fair share of mitigation and climate finance including adaptation) and support PSCD policies (stop “dumping”, safe operating space for livestock, access to protein, models of consumption, EPAs) • Use environmental diplomacy to contribute to reduce pressure on and competition over resources in Africa • Mainstream risk reduction within ODA and proposed alliance as a response to Africa’s SDG challenges • e.g. nature-based solutions for youth employment, resilience (agriculture, cities), management of commons • Strengthen regional and panafrican capacities • Integrated environmental risk mapping in Africa and MENA (going beyond climate, incl. planetary boundaries) • Military cooperation around response to disasters as well as integration of environmental risk into ground operations
- 7. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu Relevant project work from IEEP • Think2030 is a new platform of think tanks, local authorities, NGOs and businesses, which gathered on October 17th-18th in Brussels to inform a science-based agenda for European environmental policy beyond 2020, including an 8th Environmental Action Programme, and provide policy recommendations on a range of sustainability issues for policy makers including the European Parliament in the run up to the upcoming European elections. See more at https://think2030.eu/ • Think2030 paper Sustainable Development Goals and the EU: the external and internal policy nexus, by Marianne Kettunen, Catherine Bowyer, Lucia Vaculova and Celine Charveriat (IEEP). Forthcoming – will be available on our website. • Think2030 paper Reinforcing the Environmental Dimensions of the European Foreign and Security Policy, by: Marianne Kettunen (IEEP), Dominique Noome (Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change – GMACCC) and Johanna Nyman (IEEP), with support from Ronald A. Kingham (GMACCC). Available on our website https://ieep.eu/publications/draft-think-2030-policy-papers
- 8. www.ieep.eu @IEEP_eu Thank you for your attention ! ccharveriat@ieep.eu