Description
The Joint Paper on “Climate Change and International Security” (CCIS) concluded that climate change is a threat multiplier and compromises the interests and security of the EU and its partners around the world. It outlined the main threats climate change poses and provides recommendations on how to tackle the implications of climate change. Three overarching recommendations were made:
* Enhancing capacities at the EU level, to improve the abilities of the EU and its Member States for early warning, analysis and response to climate-induced implications for security.
* EU multilateral leadership to promote global climate security and to build and implement a successful post-2012 international agreement on climate change.
* Cooperation with third countries to commence dialogue, create awareness, share analysis and cooperatively address the challenges of climate change.
The EU Council welcomed the report and requested the High-Representative and the European Commission (EC) to operationalise its recommendations and develop a plan of action to implement them. For this purpose, the EU Roadmap on Climate Change and International Security was drafted and developed in close collaboration between representatives of the EC, the Council Secretariat (SEC), as well as representatives of the EU presidency troika and Member States. The Roadmap covers the period from March 2008 to December 2009 and identifies a set of main activities to be pursued in this time frame. The following documents the main activities of the process a chronological order.
Information
- Author(s)
- Council of the European Union
- Publisher
- Council of the European Union
- Place published
- Brussels
- Date / journal vol no.
- December 2009
- Pages
- 2
