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"Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind UN security council resolution casting
the climate crisis as a threat to international peace and security – a vote
that sank a years-long effort to make global heating more central to
decision-making in the UN’s most powerful body.
Spearheaded by Ireland and Niger, the proposal called for “incorporating
information on the security implications of climate change” into the council’s
strategies for managing conflicts and into peacekeeping operations and
political missions, at least sometimes.
The measure also asked the UN secretary-general to make climate-related
security risks “a central component” of conflict prevention efforts and to
report on how to address those risks in specific hotspots.
The council has occasionally discussed the security implications of climate
change since 2007 and it has passed resolutions that mention destabilizing
effects of warming in specific places, such as various African countries and
Iraq. But Monday’s resolution would have been the first devoted to
climate-related security danger as an issue of its own.
Stronger storms, rising seas, more frequent floods and droughts and other
effects of warming could inflame social tensions and conflict, potentially
“posing a key risk to global peace, security and stability”, the proposed
resolution said. Of the UN’s 193 member countries, 113 supported it, including
12 of the council’s 15 members.
But India and veto-wielding Russia voted no, while China abstained.
Their envoys said the issue should remain with broader UN groups, such as the
Framework Convention on Climate Change. Adding climate change to the security
council’s purview would only deepen global divisions that were pointed up by
last month’s climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the opponents said. The talks
ended in a deal that recommitted to a key target for limiting warming and broke
some new ground but fell short of the UN’s three big goals for the conference."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "bad, selfish vlad…"
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
