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1. “When climate change is itself the security threat, that implies an additional impetus for Council members to curb their emissions. For our part, Liechtenstein recognizes the need to improve adaptation measures and take early action to reduce vulnerability to the massive effects of climate change. Liechtenstein contributes to those efforts through the provision of climate finance of approximately SwF 2.5 million per year to climate-related projects in developing countries.”

   2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source

2. “In doing so, the Council should draw from the wide range of expertise across the United Nations system, including the important innovation of the Informal Expert Group of Members of the Security Council on Climate and Security as well as the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs-United Nations Development Programme-United Nations Environment Programme Climate Security Mechanism, and ensure regular briefings on the climate and security nexus. According to our common but differentiated responsibility, all States, collectively and individually, must significantly increase their ambitions and follow through with implementation. Council members, of course, have a special responsibility in that regard given the mandate conferred on them by the General Assembly to uphold peace and security.”

   2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source

3. “Attempts to restrict the Council’s work in this way would result in a myopic focus on militarized causes of and solutions to conflict, instead of sustainable and comprehensive conflict prevention and resolution. Instead, the Council should embrace a human security paradigm, which allows for a perspective in which climate change itself is a cause of insecurity. Liechtenstein continues to advocate for a Security Council resolution on climate and security as a standalone topic and that establishes a reporting mechanism. In its day-to-day work, it is crucial that the Council include more systematic references to the impact of global warming in country situations, in particular those outside the African continent.”

   2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source

4. “It is clear that climate impacts such as life-threatening heatwaves, dwindling water resources and the extinction of species and fisheries increase existing violent conflict and involuntary migration, poverty and social tensions. Many States fear the major disasters caused by extreme weather events, of which global warming has dramatically increased the probability, or sea-level rise, which according to current projections is likely to inundate entire territories within our lifetimes. Those impacts demonstrate how climate change is not just an intensifying factor but the most significant threat to our common security itself. Accordingly, the Council’s engagement on climate and security would be significantly strengthened by moving beyond a “hard security” paradigm framed in terms of causes of and solutions to armed conflict.”

   2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source

5. “Thank you, Mr. President, for bringing the key systemic security issue of our time to our attention today. Over the course of multiple open debates on the nexus of climate change and security, Member States have increasingly acknowledged the fact that climate change is not only an aggravating factor and a threat multiplier for conflict but itself a cause of mass insecurity. Addressing this issue in a human- centred manner is thus a prerequisite if the Council is to fulfil its mandate to maintain peace and security. As laid out in this year’s Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is increasingly likely that the next 20 years will see the world reach 1.5°C of warming — a threshold deemed the point of no return during the Paris negotiations and a frightening portent for our fragile world.”

   2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source