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  May 9, 2023

  New Report: Climate Security Scenarios in the Balkans

  The Balkans region will experience significant climate change-related hazards, including droughts, heatwaves, tropical storms, and wildfires. Given the region’s reliance on hydropower, and its position as a highly trafficked land route for migration to the European Union, these climate impacts could result in cascading security risks. In an interactive scenario exercise hosted by the International…

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  March 8, 2023

  Briefer: How the United States Can Prevent the Weaponization of Climate Migration in a Warming World: A Humane Approach

  This briefer explores the complex and multicausal drivers of migration–from escaping violence to displacement caused by climate change–and suggests how the United States can reform its immigration policies to mitigate the risks of weaponized climate-driven migration.

• August 17, 2022

  Water and Sabotage in Paradise: Greece’s Hidden Climate Conflict

  Greece’s islands might seem like unlikely settings for a wild years-long sabotage campaign, but the explosions tell a different story. By Peter Schwartzstein In late July, a person or persons unknown detonated a bomb alongside the undersea Salamina-to-Aegina water pipeline in Greece, leaving nothing but traces of a fuse and leaking freshwater. Two years earlier,…

• December 10, 2020

  European External Action Service building a Climate Change and Defence Roadmap

  This is a cross-post from the Planetary Security Initiative In an attempt to address the links between climate change and defence,  the European External Action Service (EEAS) has submitted a Climate Change and Defence Roadmap. With this roadmap, the EEAS proposes to integrate climate change into the defence actions of the EU, including in the Common Security and…