A Tale of Two Puzzles: Accounting for Military and Climate Change Expenditures
Global expenditures on mitigating and adapting to climate change were lower than military spending - by nearly 12 to 1 in 2016. Oliver Scanlan suggests in this paper for the
Oxford Research Group that a holistic assessment would view the potential impact of climate change as being of a similar order of magnitude to a major war. This calls for the routinisation, integration, institutionalisation and elevation of climate change within security institutions at international, regional and national levels. By bringing their analytical perspective to bear on climate change as a security threat, defence planners would convey the scale of the potential threat to policy makers in a way that few other constituencies can.
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