Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on December 10th, 2009
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)
The following is just in time – please see what President Obama just said in Oslo after receiving the Nobel Prize:
Speaking as U.N.-sponsored climate talks continued in Copenhagen, Obama linked global warming to international security, telling his audience that “the world must come together to confront climate change.”
He said: “There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, more famine, more mass displacement — all of which will fuel more conflict for decades.”
Now at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change will be heard something that the leadership of the UN managed to hide for many years – this until the taboo was broken by the UK at the time they chaired the UN Security Council three years ago. They declared, as part of their prerogative for naming a topic of their choosing, with full voice, that climate change is a security issue. We know what we say because our web was a victim of a UN that by policy of some individuals made the clear decision not to allow the UN DPI to see in its rooms the truth come out via the UN accredited press.
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from Jonathan Gaventa
E3G, Institute for Environmental Security, Chatham House and Energy Security Initiative at Brookings COP15 Official Side Event
Delivering Climate Security
What the security community needs from a global climate regime
Thursday 17th December, 2:45pm – 4:15pm*
Liva Weel Room, Bella Center
Join leading climate security experts for a side event exploring climate change impacts on national security and how the global climate regime can address this threat.
Experts:
Brigadier General (ret) Wendell Chris King, Dean of Academics, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Nick Mabey, CEO and Founding Director, E3G
Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, Climate and Energy Security Envoy, United Kingdom
Major General (ret) Muniruzzaman, President, Bangladesh Institute for Peace and Security Studies
Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow, Chatham House
*Refreshments will be served at the end of the event.
For more information please contact Meera Shah on +44 207 234 9880.
Related materials are available on E3G’s website: www.e3g.org.
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