Environment and Security
What can ecologists contribute to international security? Margaret Beckett, the UK’s Foreign Secretary, made an intervention at the UN to raise climate change as an issue for the Security Council to consider. In the USA, Senators are bringing forward legislation to ensure that the intelligence community considers climate change in its security assessments. Both look at ecological aspects of climate change impacts, such as changes to agricultural systems and the spread of infectious diseases.
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