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2019-01-25
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  1. “I want to take this opportunity to emphasize that Canada, as a country seeking a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the 2021-2022 term, will continue to advocate for results-based solutions in the nexus between climate and peace and security, and as a voice for those countries most affected by climate change, including our hemispheric partners in the Caribbean, and all small island developing States.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  2. “To ensure that the Security Council is equipped to continue to play this leadership role, and as recommended by the youth representative this morning, Canada supports the establishment of a new special representative of the Secretary-General on climate and security, as well as the establishment of a hub for the topic within the United Nations system. It is critical that the Security Council better understand climate-related security risks and report on climate risks when analysing a conflict or region. Complex problems require collective solutions. In climate change we have perhaps one of our most complex problems. We must act together.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  3. “It is important to emphasize that viewing climate change through a peace-and-security lens does not undermine the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the commitment of countries around the world to take ambitious action domestically to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. It complements it by expanding the frame to recognize that climate change is not simply an environmental problem. For those reasons, Canada is of the firm view that the issue of climate and security must have a clear place in the Council's deliberations. We recognize the Council's leadership through resolutions passed in recent years recognizing the adverse effects of climate change on the stability and security of regions, such as the Lake Chad basin and the Sahel.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  4. “Whether the issue is desertification in parts of Africa, forced migration of vulnerable people creating climate refugees, conflict over water scarcity, or rising sea levels and tropical storms for small island States, the security aspects of climate change are a near and present danger. As Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed emphasized, climate change should be Viewed as one issue in a web of factors that can lead to conflict. As many have emphasized, for the third year in a row, the World Economic Forum, in its Global Risks Report, found that world leaders rank climate change and climate-change-related risks as the top risks in the world, higher than large-scale cyberattacks or terrorism.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  5. “For Canadians, climate-related natural disasters, wildfires, extreme heat, droughts, rising sea levels, melting ice and thawing permafrost in Canada's north represent not just inconveniences but existential threats, in particular to some of our most vulnerable, including indigenous peoples living in the Arctic and in rural and remote communities. Canada's top military commander recently said that one of the greatest security threats to Canada is not military, but that of natural disasters, in Canada and around the world. Countries around the world, especially least developed countries and small island developing States, are feeling great impacts that threaten their very survival.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  6. “Ms. McKenna (Canada) (spoke in French): First of all, I want to thank you, Mr. President, for the invitation to discuss the impact of climate change on the security of our planet. This is an urgent and essential discussion. I thank the Dominican Republic for taking up this important leadership. (spoke in English) Climate change is the defining issue of our time. It is an environmental issue, an economic issue and quite clearly one of the greatest security challenges of the twenty-first century, threatening lives and livelihoods of citizens around the world. Like many here today, Canada is working hard to both mitigate the risks of climate change and adapt to its impacts.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source