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Topicality

Climate Change as Security Issue - does this mean: more efficient climate policy or more security against refugees? Christoph Bals, Germanwatch Session, EFMSV, Bonn 9 October 2008. Topicality.

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Topicality

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  1. Climate Change as Security Issue- does this mean: more efficient climate policy or more security against refugees?Christoph Bals, Germanwatch Session, EFMSV, Bonn9 October 2008

  2. Topicality • We see a tendency to more environmental refugees - and climate change might become (or is already becoming) a dominant trigger of this tendency • In Europe (Schengen) and the US: we see the tendency to move and "secure" the borders • Strategies of companies and states: Move human right issues out of the visible zone - Human right issues (and relevant pictures) are moved to the supply chain and geographically to African / Latin American countries

  3. Our responsibilities • Do we have more or other responsibility than to safeguard our borders? • To support adaptation strategies to prevent refugees - based on the right to food / water • To support regional strategies to deal with refugees in a constructive way? • To mitigate conflicts? • To give climate refugees an official refugee status? • To think about contingents of climate refugees for industrialized countries - based on responsibility and capability?

  4. The scientific basis What can science deliver as a basis for a sound political discussion? Lots of open questions regarding • definitions • statistics • concepts to minimize social vulnerability • the attempts to combine this with the adaptation debate of the UN climate negotiations • climate as a security issue - which calls for partnership and not military solutions (both for greenhouse gas reduction and for adaptation / risk reduction / migration prevention / migration strategies). Is science ready to address these questions?

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