Climate security

And I think, you know, the chips are still falling into place after the end of the week.

But I think what I was really pleased to see was the UK government in particular following through on Foreign Secretary Miliband's commitment to host a foreign ministers meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on climate security.

He co-hosted that with the government of Kenya and the European Commission.

And the UK government made new commitments to the GEF, the Global Environmental Facility, and a few other things, and really drove a conversation forward there and released a statement with many different points after that meeting.

So I think that was a good example of actually operationalizing the words around climate security with good leadership from the UK government.

Um, I think also yesterday's meeting on global sea level rise and the, um, statement that came out of that meeting that was not torpedoed by the United States, uh, fortunately, I think was also good.

Um, so those, those are good steps.

issues, I mean.

And of course, we should choose life.

I think climate security framings, which explicitly make the link between climate and security, I think they have helped to some degree with mainstreaming understanding of connections between climate change, conflict and security over the past few years, even with advocates within the military itself calling for change.

But such framings can be problematic if they track too much towards threat narratives which contribute to justifying hard military responses.

And this can also risk obscuring more peace-oriented approaches that interpret the urgency of the climate crisis in terms of even more need for cooperation and coming together.