[Committee] FWD: "Climate Change as a Security Risk"

[Gunnar Möller]

Hi all,

the email below points out an interesting report - summary is
available online, as well as the full version.

By the way, I think we should establish some way to keep track of
references we send around.
Do you think the wiki is a useful way to do this? I put links there
occasionally, but have no clue
if anybody ever looks at them... Maybe we could institutionalize this somehow?

Greetings,

Gunnar

=== forwarded message ===

Dear colleagues,

    the full english translation of the report
"Climate Change as a Security Risk " (unedited preprint)
released by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) in June
2007 is now available for download at

http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_jg2007_engl.html
(19 MB, 258 pages)

The full german text is available at
http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_jg2007.html

Best regards,
Astrid Schulz

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World in Transition -- Climate Change as a Security Risk

German Advisory Council on Global Change

Without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many
societies' adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could
result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and
international security to a new degree. However, climate change could
also unite the international community, provided that it recognizes
climate change as a threat to humankind and soon sets the course for the
avoidance of dangerous anthropogenic climate change by adopting a
dynamic and globally coordinated climate policy. If it fails to do so,
climate change will draw ever-deeper lines of division and conflict in
international relations, triggering numerous conflicts between and
within countries over the distribution of resources, especially water
and land, over the management of migration, or over compensation
payments between the countries mainly responsible for climate change and
those countries most affected by its destructive effects.

That is the backdrop against which WBGU, in this flagship report,
summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of "Climate
Change as a Security Risk". It is based on the findings of research into
environmental conflicts, the causes of war, and of climate impact
research. It appraises past experience but also ventures to cast a
glance far into the future in order to assess the likely impacts of
climate change on societies, nation-states, regions and the
international system.

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                   Dr. Astrid Schulz
               Research Analyst, Climate
    German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
                   WBGU Secretariat
Reichpietschufer 60-62                D-10785 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 263948 17          Fax: +49 30 263948 50
Email: aschulz at wbgu.de            http://www.wbgu.de
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