The move lays a foundation for future work on the issue and demonstrates growing concern about the potential for climate change to exacerbate existing conflicts and spark new ones as people are increasingly forced to compete for scarce resources, like food, water, and habitable land.
The outcome clearly marks a shift in the way we think about the realities of life in a warming world, but there is still disagreement over what concrete action the Security Council should now take.
As a representative of the countries who led this initiative, I would like to elaborate on why we are so serious about this issue and on the details of our proposal.
For Pacific island nations, the security implications of climate change are not hypothetical. Right now, prolonged droughts are depleting our limited fresh water supplies and killing our crops; ocean acidification is degrading the coral reefs and fisheries many of us depend on for food and survival; and coastal flooding is ruining our agricultural land. Read the full report here.
Source: Ambassador Marlene Moses, Huffpost Green.
