Addressing the impacts of climate change on security risks is one of the top priorities for many current and former members of the Security Council. As recent elected members (E10) have found, however, placing climate change on the Council’s agenda is a complex and risky process, where several recent attempts to reach consensus have failed. The difficulties of more systematically including climate change on the Council’s agenda should be set against a growing evidence based of the causal links between environmental change and security risks, as well as the recent recognition of a human right a clean, healthy, sustainable environment, both of which may offer new opportunities. This paper provides a roadmap for engaging on the issue of climate, peace and security in the Security Council.
