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Arria Formula “Preparing for security implica4ons of rising temperatures” In 2017, a number of extreme events related felt around the world. They are dangerous to rising temperatures and deple:on of and accelerang”. natural resources, triggered by rising temperatures and climate change, have 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of first December 15th, threatened the security of millions of Security Council ministerial-level open people, from the devasta:ng and deadly debate on the rela:onship between energy, 2017 hurricanes in the US and several Caribbean security and climate, which was convened by 3-6 pm islands to the deathly famines in Nigeria, the UK and included a briefing by then Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, all areas Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Since then, affected by conflict. Rising sea levels in the climate-induced security threats have UNHQ Pacific are posing a direct threat to islands become more pressing and there is an and their popula:ons. urgent need to bring climate change also to Ecosoc Chamber the Security Council’s agenda. As the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, argued during his speech at NYU last May, An important milestone was the adop:on of “Climate change is a direct threat in itself Security Council resolu:on 2349 (2017) last and a mul2plier of many other threats - from March, in which the Security Council clearly poverty to displacement to conflict. The recognized the adverse effects of climate effects of climate change are already being change on stability in the Lake Chad region. The Security Council also emphasized humanitarian crises, unrest and ensure that his repor:ng to the the need for adequate risk conflict. Such instances have become Council contain contextual assessments and risk management increasingly common and more informaon on possible security strategies with regards to these devasta:ng, resul:ng in the reversal implica:ons of climate change, when effects. As such, there is a growing of development gains even in it becomes a driver of conflict or demand for early warning countries with significant levels of represent a challenge to the mechanisms addressing climate socio-economic progress. And as the implementa:on of Council mandates related security risks. effects of climate change become or endanger the process of more severe, they become a consolida:on of peace. However, at Climate-related disasters have mul:plier of various crises. present, there is no ins:tu:onal home increased in number and magnitude. 197 pares have recognized the for addressing climate-related security Over the past decade, more than climate threat and have commiced to risks in the UN system. 700,000 people lost their lives, over address it by signing the Paris 1.4 million were injured, and Agreement and taking ac:on to limit Guiding Quesons approximately 23 million are global warming. And to date 170 How could the task deriving from the homeless as a result of natural countries have already ra:fied it, 2011 Presiden:al Statement of the disasters. Notoriously the regions allowing for its early entry into force. Security Council be promoted and most affected by climate change are In parallel to these commitments to reinforced within the UN system and the Arc:c, Africa, the Americas, the mi:gate emissions and adapt to beyond? Mediterranean region, which is climate change, we have to sustain How can the Security Council, considered by the scien:fic peace and invest in well-informed benefi:ng the United Na:ons System community an “hotspot” of climate conflict preven:on that limits the at large, become more consistent and change, and Small Islands Developing threats to security posed by climate effec:ve in the assessment of new States (SIDS) as well as densely change. security risks generated by climate populated Asian and African mega change? On 30 October 2017, in a briefing to deltas. Eight of the world's 10 largest How can we becer prepare to avoid the Security Council, the Secretary- ci:es are near a coast and 40% of the destabilizing phenomena with General described how poverty and world’s populaon live in relavely poten:ally global implica:ons (e.g. climate change have contributed to high-popula:on-density coastal areas. sea level rise, droughts, floods, humanitarian and security crises in Also, people living in fragile natural disasters), and mi:gate the mountainous ecosystems in the Sahel, and how the weak effects of such phenomena (e.g. developing countries are par:cularly instuons, exclusion and climate induced migraon, food vulnerable to climate change and food marginaliza:on of some groups are insecurity, economic loss, increased insecurity. Climate change induced exploited by extremists and terrorists. social and economic stress caused by migraon increasingly challenges urbaniza:on, fight over scarce The interna:onal community has an social systems and regional stability. resources) that will trigger or further increasing responsibility to prepare Environmental migrants and refugees aggravate poli:cal strife, unrest and and develop capabilies to becer will increasingly shape the human conflict? foresee, understand and respond to geography of the planet. How can the Security Council use its climate-related security risks. unique role within the UN system to The impact of rising temperatures is prevent climate change-induced Applying the principle of ‘climate already affec:ng every country to conflicts? proofing’ would entail mainstreaming, various extents and it will con:nue to integrang, instuonalizing and disrupt economies and deprive the Briefers comprehensively raising awareness livelihoods of billions of people due to Halbe Zijlstra, Minister of Foreign about climate and security issues. changing weather pacerns, rising sea Affairs of the Netherlands With Presiden:al Statement S/PRST/ levels, loss of land, and more extreme Caitlin E. Werrel, Co-Founder & 2011/15, the Security Council weather events. Droughts, floods or President of The Center for Climate requested that the Secretary-General water scarcity can generate and Security, Washington Born in Oosterwolde, 21 January 1969. Degree in commercial economic management from the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen. Degree in sociology from the University of Groningen (1966) Aper gradua:ng, he worked as an account manager at Arval, a vehicle leasing company. In 1999 he moved to Ac:vity Project Management Services in Driebergen. In 2001 he set up his own business (Improvex, a project management consultancy), numbering Shell among his clients. From 1998 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2006 he was a member of Utrecht municipal council for the VVD, and leader of the VVD group in the council from 2004. Since 2016 Mr Zijlstra has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Poli:cal Leaders Commicee. Halbe Zijlstra On 30 November 2006 he became a member of the House of Representa:ves for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He was spokesman on a Minister of range of issues, including immigra:on, integra:on, care and higher educa:on. He was also a member of the parliamentary commicee inves:ga:ng educa:onal Foreign Affairs of reform. From 14 October 2010 un:l 5 November 2012 he was State Secretary for Educa:on, the Netherlands Culture and Science in the Ruce-Verhagen government. From 1 November 2012 to 16 March 2017 he was the leader of the VVD parliamentary party. She is also Co-Chair of the Climate and Security Advisory Group. She leads the Center’s policy development, analysis and research programs, and facilitates the primary forum for climate and security dialogue in the U.S. na:onal security community. She has wricen and published extensively on the security implica:ons of climate change, water stress and natural resource mismanagement in Syria and North Africa, including in the seminal report “The Arab Spring and Climate Change,” and in the SAIS Review of Interna:onal Affairs, as well as the poten:al for new technologies like addi:ve manufacturing for addressing climate risks. Her primary research interests include climate change, water policy and interna:onal security. She has spent over a decade inves:ga:ng the intersec:on of security, natural resources, conflict and coopera:on. Caitlin has experience in interna:onal and domes:c climate and water policy, including as co-founder of the MAP Ins:tute for Water & Climate, a Senior Associate at AD Partners, and as Director of Interna:onal Programs at EDN. Caitlin has wricen for the SAIS Review of Interna:onal Affairs, Angle Journal, Defense News, the Reuters Founda:on, the Na:onal Journal, the Caitlin Werrell Bulle:n of Atomic Scien:sts, Climate Progress and e-Interna:onal Rela:ons, and has been cited by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, USA Co-Founder & Today, CNN’s Chris:ane Amanpour, the Chris:an Science Monitor, Slate, the Toronto Star and the Atlan:c, among others. She holds a master’s degree from the University President of the of Oxford, where she focused on transboundary water issues, concluding with a field study on water conflict and coopera:on in Cyprus. Caitlin also holds a BA in Center for Environmental Poli:cs from Mount Holyoke College. Caitlin also serves on the advisory board of the Nuclear Security Working Group and the Planetary Security Climate and Ini:a:ve. Security .