Climate Change and Terrorism
This article is adapted from an article previously published by the journal,Perspectives on Terrorism.
Climate change is a defining global issue of our time. In a recent address to the UN Security Council, John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, remarked that climate change is “the challenge of all of our generations.” An important dimension of the challenge presented by climate change concerns its implications for state and human security.
Over the past several decades, scholars and policy makers have dedicated a considerable amount of time and other resources to understanding the connections between security and climate change. The interplay between climate change and terrorism is a dimension of the climate-security nexus that continues to attract significant interest in this regard.