Cambio Climático: Desafíos de la Seguridad y Defensa en la Adaptación y Mitigación

Abstract

The concepts of security, national defense, and climate change are interrelated in a complex way, which generates various initiatives whose purpose is to study and analyze the probable causes that would originate conflicts created by climate change, as well as its mitigation and adaptation. Climate change is projected as a threat to security which is increasing rapidly, where extreme weather phenomena occurring in the world come to be a direct threat to the conservation of the human species, however, those environmental impacts of slow evolution are causing the systematic degradation of the quality of land, water, air.
Climate change is a challenge to obtain peace and security, although it is true that several countries endure food insecurity, scarce water resources, accelerated desertification, and limited availability of arable land, all due to the constant population increase and poor global governance. The multiple crises require the attention of political decision-makers; the climate crisis could soon spiral out of control, with no adequate responses in sight. The security and defense sector, from civilian crisis prevention to national defense. Climate impacts are accelerating, affecting people and  ecosystems, these damages are more intense, widespread, and severe than expected, and future risks will increase rapidly with every fraction of a degree of warming.