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  1. “It is up to the Security Council to prevent instability, insecurity and the displacement and suffering of people everywhere. The Council therefore has to fulfil its responsibility to call for appropriate action when stability is at risk and in the case of climate-related threats to ensure peace for future generations. We heard that climate change changes everything for everyone everywhere. This is our call and this is our moment.”

    2018-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8307 (2018) · source

  2. “Assuming our responsibility, the Kingdom of the Netherlands continues to offer a platform for the climate and security debate through our annual Planetary Security Conference, in which Curacao will also participate. We hope all interested parties make optimal use of that platform to explore solutions to the climate-related security risks in Mali, Iraq, Lake Chad and, of course, the Caribbean small island developing States. Climate-related insecurity can affect us all. As the Prime Minister of Fiji put it, we are all in the same canoe. I also would like to cite Thomas Friedman, who concluded that "the only way to steer is to paddle as fast as or faster than the rate of change", in this case climate change. In conclusion, we believe the Council has an important role to play.”

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  3. “To advance that agenda, we also believe that the United Nations needs an institutional home on climate and security. Therefore, we applaud the initiative to launch a knowledge hub on that subject. The United Nations needs institutionalized cooperation that is properly coordinated and embedded across the Organization and that will enhance and accelerate how existing United Nations agencies tackle this challenge. As a current member of the Council, we are ready to shoulder our responsibility and contribute to that end. On many occasions, the necessary actions will need to be taken on the ground by entities other than the Security Council. Both the Secretariat and other United Nations bodies have a role in assessing and managing climate-related security risks. In addition, the international community at large should also play its part.”

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  4. “That requires the United Nations to have the capabilities that match the extent of the challenge. By that I mean, first, an increased analytical capability, which is needed for joint risk assessments, conflict analysis and early warning, and I truly hope we can agree on the need for better analytical information. Secondly, it requires the capability to manage risks by encouraging more and better programming, notably prevention, stabilization and development efforts that are conflict and climate sensitive. Thirdly, it requires monitoring and assessing progress and modifying our programming when necessary. We will continue to encourage the Secretary- General to include climate-related risks in his reports to the Council when and where that applies.”

    2018-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8307 (2018) · source

  5. “There was also the request that the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq assist the Government of Iraq in facilitating regional dialogue and cooperation on water and most recently the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. I also recall the briefing on the Lake Chad basin under our Kingdom's presidency (see S/PV.8212) in which the majority of us agreed that climate change is a threat multiplier in the region. The Council is starting to prove that it is responsive to the security impact of climate change where and when it matters. The Kingdom of the Netherlands strongly believes that the Security Council must ensure appropriate action by the United Nations, in New York, but especially on the ground in affected countries.”

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  6. “By responding in a timely manner to warning signs, also when it comes to climate-related security risks, we can adequately address root causes, prevent instability and conflict and sustain peace in the future. Recently, the Council has taken significant steps towards recognizing climate-related security risks, as you, Madam President, just mentioned. The first was the adoption of resolution 2349 (2017), on the Lake Chad basin, followed by presidential statement S/PRST/2018/3 on the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel and resolution 2408 (2018) on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia.”

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  7. “It can ultimately lead to displacement and regional tensions. Where climate change threatens international stability and security, the Council has a responsibility to act. What if we had known 15 years ago that in 2018, millions of people in the Lake Chad region would need relief assistance to survive, with water stress as one of the threat multipliers? What if we had known that millions ofpeople from Somalia would still be displaced against the backdrop of severe droughts? What if we had known that climate change would constitute an existential threat to small island development States like my own? Those questions may seem irrelevant, since we cannot change the course of history. But what we can change is how we apply the lessons we have learned so far.”

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  8. “I would like to thank Minister Wallstrom of Sweden for organizing today's debate on climate-related security risks. I also wholeheartedly thank Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed, Minister Janabi and Ms. Ibrahim for their excellent and valuable testimonies and briefings. In addition, it is great to see fellow small island developing States at this table. I am particularly pleased to be here today, because we are discussing a topic that directly affects my country. As the Prime Minister of Curacao, a small island developing State in the Caribbean, I can attest to the fact that the link between climate change and security is clear and undeniable to our people and to those of other countries of the Kingdom, particularly Aruba and Sint Maarten. Increased climate variability threatens social stability.”

    2018-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8307 (2018) · source