- Climate change is happening, and it is a threat to human security. The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions, and an increase in the number, duration and intensity of tropical storms. Recent global news headlines in 2018 from Europe, Japan, and Australia decry our lack of preparation for the inevitable and point to new stressors that will change the way we live. On 9 August 2018, the New York Times proclaimed, “2018 is shaping up to be the fourth-hottest year, yet we’re still not prepared for global warming”. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed this trend on 06 February 2019.
- The interconnections between environment, climate change and conflict are vast and complexity. To improve implementation of sustainable development policy, we need to continue to build an understanding of how climate change is a threat to human security. For those countries whose populations’ livelihoods depend on an agro-pastoral economy (such as in the Sahel), we need to document more case studies of primary and secondary causality and bring this evidence to policy-making platforms. This evidence should include the current and potential cost of climate change to society at local, national, and international levels
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