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Climate Change and Global Security: What Role for the UN Security Council?

  • Ken Conca
  • Joe Thwaites
  • Goueun Lee

Whether the Council should address climate change is a highly politicized question, tied to controversies about the Council’s mandate, membership reform, and the appropriate division of labour in the UN system. Lost in this political debate has been a more fundamental question—what exactly could the Council do?

In this analysis, the authors present the results of their research on climate change as a Security Council issue and the identified proposals for Council actions.

Access here a review of the original report.

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