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The United Kingdom recently released its latest National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015.
The strategic document essentially lays out the fundamentals of the UK’s approach to national security, and climate change features prominently (all explicit mentions of climate change are quoted below).
Broadly speaking, climate change is listed as a contributor to instability, an opportunity for engagement with other nations, including the United States, and as a factor affecting UK global influence.
It is also worth noting that the integration of climate change into UK National Security Strategies is not a recent addition.
As noted in a report by the House of Lords, House of Commons, Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy “The first NSS was produced in 2008, with a 2009 update, and the second after the General Election in 2010, in parallel with the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) and the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).”
All of these strategies have included references to “climate change.”
The Foreword by the Prime Minister, David Cameron notes:
Britain’s safety and security depends not just on our own efforts, but on working hand in glove with our allies to deal with the common threats that face us all, from terrorism to climate change. When confronted by danger, we are stronger together. So we will play our full part in the alliances which underpin our security and amplify our national power. We will work with our allies in Europe and around the world – as well as seizing opportunities to reach out to emerging powers.
The whole strategy is worth a read as a window into the current security landscape through the eyes of the UK.
The treatment of climate change within that view is also interesting, as it goes further than other equivalent strategic documents in drawing connections between climate change and other traditional and non-traditional risks in the security landscape.
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