Climate destabilisation is a core security concern
1 Great George St, London SW1P 3AA
About this Event
Climate destabilisation is a core security concern.
Join TMP and RUSI on Tuesday, 24 June to explore this vital issue.
Defence establishments face complex and evolving threats, from emerging power competition to Europe’s accelerated rearmament. Countering traditional adversaries remains paramount, but strategists must now account for a new variable: climate destabilisation.
Security decision-makers are starting to respond. The recent UK Strategic Defence Review classified climate change as a “transnational challenge” on the same level as terrorism, while key European partners including France and Germany have adopted similar official positions. The challenge now is identifying specific measures to make climate a central part of defence planning and spending.
This event will introduce work TMP and RUSI are doing together to help the UK and its allies do just that, drawing on input from leading experts. We’ll examine how in the next 10 years, climate destabilisation will increase operational demands for humanitarian and disaster response (HADR) at the same time it compromises military supply chains – and how being prepared for these dual pressures can create new strategic advantages.
The audience will blend 100 to 120 security, government, philanthropy and business leaders – because we need to address these shared challenges together. We hope to see you there.
Agenda:
12:30 Sandwich lunch & refreshments
13:00 Keynote speech: Climate security
Rachel Ellehuus Director General, RUSI
13:10 The end of the beginning:
A new era for security and climate change
Lou Munden Founder, TMP
13:30 Climate change is change: Expert panel
13:50 Advantages panel:
Climate change will create strategic
advantages for the UK and our allies –
if we’re ready. This panel will explore
how climate impacts for adversaries like
Russia could change the map of strategic
advantages.
14:30 Break: coffee, tea and snacks
14:50 Rearmament panel:
UK and EU rearmament must factor in
climate impacts. Military industries,
logistics and critical mineral supply chains
need to be resilient to interlinked climate
and geopolitical risks. This panel will also
explore climate implications for force
structure, energy security and the energy
transition.
15:30 Humanitarian assistance and disaster
response (HADR) panel:
The climate crisis will dramatically
increase demand for HADR operations –
both abroad and at home. Planning on
HADR must account for climate impacts
on migration, non-state armed groups,
organised crime and fiscal space.
16:10 Closing remarks:
TMP and RUSI will reflect on the day’s
panel discussions and chart next steps
for our vital initiative to change the way
climate security is managed.
If you are interested in attending, please contact kate.napier@asktmp.com. Please note that spaces are limited, and invitations will be formally extended on a case-by-case basis.
TMP & RUSI
Founded in 2009, TMP is a dedicated group of experts focused on complex social, environmental and security problems. We have conducted analyses in 59 different countries across six continents, including field work in 33 nations. During field visits in the 2010s, we saw first-hand that climate change was a greater and more immediate problem than desk-based research and available climate models suggested. We realized that weather extremes in the 2020s could easily accelerate past many societies’ capacities to manage them and that urgent action was needed. More information is available at www.asktmp.com.
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