Mich "Climate security or climate justice?"

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Pierre André

As it becomes more and more threatening, climate change is increasingly conceptualized in terms of security. Security and defense organizations around the world have started incorporating climate change in their strategic thinking, in a movement described as a “securitization” of climate change issues. Will it lead to a more just or to a more unjust world? In this article, I examine the relation between the concept of climate security and that of climate justice. I argue that the ethical implications of the securitization of climate issues are ambiguous. Framing climate change in terms of security may further climate justice but it may also condone some serious injustices.