Planetary Security Initiative (PSI)

📢 For Spanish speakers 💡 Discover an insightful conversation on water’s critical role in the fight against #climatechange by the Elcano Royal Institute. 💧#COP29 in #Baku adopted the first Declaration on Water for Climate Action, emphasizing water’s vital role as a strategic #resource. In the latest episode of the Conversaciones Elcano podcast, Sofía Tirado Sarti and Raquel García Llorente dive into the geopolitical and economic challenges of #water, its role in global climate #policy, and the pressing issues facing #Spain. 🎙️ Listen here: https://lnkd.in/df9sPRnE #ClimateChange #WaterCrisis #Elcano #Sustainability #Podcast 

🌍 A recent article by Varun Mohan highlights how the perceived Global North-South divide is a major roadblock to addressing the #security implications of #climatechange in the United Nations Security council.    💡 There is a growing consensus within the #GlobalSouth that climate change poses significant security risks but resistance to involving the United Nations Security Council to address these risks remains.  The Global South, as a category, may have limited utility in understanding the role of the United Nations Security Council in climate security. Smaller, more focused coalitions like Small Island Developing States (#SIDS) 🏝️ are more useful to understand how states approach #climatesecurity. Read the full article 👇  https://lnkd.in/eacfBQjt  

📑 A new report by Global Water Monitor found that, in 2024, the world broke new temperature records while precipitation extremes increased. Here are some of the key findings of the report: 🔷 #climatechange is making water disasters worse. 🔶 #globaltemperatures continue to increase rapidly. 🔷 Both high rainfall and droughts are becoming more extreme. 🔶 Water-related disasters caused major damage in 2024. Flash #floods, #landslides, and tropical #cyclones were the worst types of disasters in terms of casualties and economic damage. 🔷 Floods and #drought impacted different parts of Africa, and drought conditions deepened in the Amazon basin and Southern Africa. In 2025, the world faces increased risks. Droughts may worsen in South America, Southern Africa and parts of Asia whilst wetter regions like Europe may face elevated flood risks. Read the full report 👇  https://lnkd.in/e_XKp4vK  

New Publication 📜 Climate change is turning up the heat in the Arctic 🔥 The area has become a #geopolitical hotspot because glaciers and sea ice are melting at record speed due to #climatechange, uncovering mineral resources and opening up alternative sea routes. This view of the #Arctic as a geopolitical chessboard means it is easy to forget about the regions of millions of inhabitants who are confronted on a daily basis with the changes to the climate, the search for critical raw materials including oil and gas, as well as an enhanced military build-up. #Multilateral institutions such as the Arctic Council are hamstrung by these geopolitical tensions, but Indigenous peoples, with their shared cultural ties, can play a role in fostering dialogue and reducing misunderstandings Read Alert on the Arctic using the link below: https://lnkd.in/dynYZEpP By: Louise van Schaik, Niels Drost, Emil Marc Havstrup & Giovanni D'Amico #ArcticCouncil #criticalrawmaterials

An article published by the Elcano Royal Institute highlights that the #Valenciafloods 🌧️ are not representative of #Spain as a whole. In stark contrast, other parts of Spain have recently suffered prolonged bouts of #drought. 🚱  Both the tragedy in Valencia and persistent droughts have brought home the rising threat of #climatechange on #planetarysecurity for which Spain, like so many other countries, is unprepared.  ⏰  A report, published in November 2024 by the environmental consultant OIKOS, sounds alarm bells on Spain’s ‘increasing #waterstress’ 💧 #Watergovernance clearly needs to be improved. OIKOS calls for the creation of a national water authority in order to better coordinate national, regional and municipal policies. Read the article by William Chislett here 👇  https://lnkd.in/euAaevRR  

🎆 It's a wrap! The team at Planetary Security Initiative (PSI) wishes everyone a peaceful end of the year and great start into 2025. 📖 For those interested, we have a #readingrecommendation for the holidays: The '10 New Insights in Climate Science' Report 2024/2025 by Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Each year, leading scientists from around the world review the most pressing findings in climate change-related research. This year's report features 10 concise insights, including on: ◾ surging #methane levels and what drives these GHG emissions ◾ the impact of climate change on #reproductivehealth ◾ #biodiversity's role for a more resilient #Amazon ◾ #criticalminerals supply chains in the #energytransition ... and much more! You can find more details and the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dzDEP2HN 🗨️ In Johan Rockström's (PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) words, "the report confirms that the world faces planetary scale challenges ... yet it also provides clear pathways and solutions, demonstrating that with urgent, decisive action, we still can avoid unmanageable outcomes." ✨ Let's finish 2024 on this hopeful note ✨ Happy holidays to all of you!

This December, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification's COP16 brought together world leaders to discuss #desertification, #landdegradation and #drought, all of which have detrimental impacts on #planetarysecurity. 🚱 🌳 Many #landrestoration initiatives focus on forest cover. The UN and other prominent organisations in the field define forests as areas with more than 10% tree cover. However, many non-forest ecosystems that are dotted with trees also fall under this category and risk being targeted by reforestation efforts, causing the loss of #ecosystemservices. ❗ Land restoration will be critical to achieve #climatesecurity, but the forest-centric vision of land restoration must be revised. Amid the launch of Saudi Arabia's #REMDY project at UNCCD COP16 – which uses #AI to monitor land health – special attention should also be paid to the capabilities and potential limitations of digital technologies and smart systems in assessing land health. Read the full commentary by PSI's Esther Fütterer on the UNCCD COP16 and land restoration 👇  https://lnkd.in/eEngx7pR

🌍 The Earth’s climate faces a high risk of crossing #tippingpoints and could see a rapid transition into an ice-free #climate if greenhouse gas (#GHG) #emissions continue to increase.  📈 Preventing the crossing of this tipping point will come at a large cost, but the price of delaying this investment will likely be even higher for #climatesecurity. A recent study published by Nature Portfolio finds that:   🔷 Polar-sea ice levels are dangerously close to tipping levels.   🔷 Tipping points have an ‘overshoot window’ where the cost for reversal does not surge straight away once the tipping point is crossed, but increases linearly over time.   🔷 The larger the overshoot window for a tipping point, the higher the cost of intervention once the overshoot window ends and the tipping point is fully crossed.  🔷 For polar sea-ice levels, the cost of controlling the impacts after tipping could nearly quadruple. Read the full research article by Parvathi Madathil Kooloth, Jian Lu , Craig Bakker, Derek DeSantis & Adam Rupe here 👇  https://lnkd.in/dPfHZtBc

🌐 PSI is on Bluesky 🌐 🔗 Find us with our username: @plansecu.bsky.social https://lnkd.in/e-VfvVWf #PlanetarySecurity #ClimateSecurity #Bluesky #Sustainability #Peacebuilding 

🚨 The Climate Security Association of Canada has announced a #callforpapers 🚨 💡#CSAC is calling for papers that explore the critical intersections of #climatechange, #security, and the futures of #war and #peace for their third annual conference on #climatesecurity in May 2025. Topics of Interest include:  🔷The future of war in a changing climate  🔷Climate change and the evolution of peacekeeping, humanitarian intervention, and peacebuilding  🔷Climate change and the future of the military    🔷The political and ethical challenges of predicting climate security futures  🔷The implications of climate change for military strategy and deployment 🗓️ Submission Deadline: 03/02/2025 🔗 Learn More & Apply: https://lnkd.in/ewVGsx-c Share this with your network to spread the word!