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

[Marc Kaufmann]

Hi,

I do agree that we should keep track of them, I think that I have a couple
of emails that I just kept in order not to lose them, I never look at the
wiki. If things go well, we will have a new website where we can store them
in a forum or wiki. We should have a look around how other well-organised
websites keep these kinds of information.

I just registered a new forum for the climatecoaltion at

http://climatecoalition.phpbbnow.com/viewforum.php?f=1

for organising the climate coalition in cambridge. I'll put them up there
temporarily as well, as I don't think we'll keep the forum the way it is.
Get involved in the discussions if any of them tempt you. Or start one.

Take care,

Marc



On 9/18/07, Gunnar Möller <gunnarm5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------
>                    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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