Publications and Resources
Report: The Security Blind spot
How climate change poses both immediate and long-term threats that are at least as serious as the Covid-19 pandemic.
Report: Derailment risk
How will the effects of climate change, nature loss, and other environmental change impact our ability to tackle the causes of these problems? There
Report: Leadership in the Polycrisis
This report explores how leadership development in a defense context might have increasing relevance for civilian leaders wanting to enhance their capacity to respond to an era of instability, itself driven by the escalating climate and nature crisis.
Event: Stories of 1.5°C: Dead or alive? at Chatham House
How can a rapid, equitable green transition navigate the increasingly difficult circumstances resulting from the deepening climate and ecological crisis?
Comment: Breaching the 1.5°C target could be used as an excuse to delay climate action
We should perceive the emerging debate over the prospects for 1.5°C as a proxy for a wider, more fundamental debate about whether transformational change is possible, and what it should look like.
Report: 1.5°C – dead or alive?
This report argues that the consequences of the environmental crisis could challenge our ability to tackle its root causes.
Comment: Success, failure, and the imperative for justice in climate negotiations
An article for the WHO Bulletin, touching on the health risks of cascading, complex risks resulting from the climate crisis.
Comment: Climate change as a national security threat
These developments mark the latest evolution of the ‘climate security’ agenda, a policy programme that has been decades in the making.
Talk: Climate Change and (In)security Project
A talk to the CCIP’s 2022 annual conference.
Comment: Urgent action needed for Africa and the world at COP27
This editorial warns of the growing complex, cascading risks resulting from the climate crisis and the need for immediate action to minimise these risks and build resilience.
Event: Beyond ‘Hopeium’ and ‘Doomism’, Chatham House
A discuss of the climate crisis and beyond hope and doom.
Report: The Cohort 2040 Challenge
This report - published with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) - explores the huge challenge that emerging leaders of the millennial and younger generations could soon inherit. It argues they will have to be better prepared to continue the struggle for a more sustainable, equitable and resilience world under worsening conditions.
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