Dr. Steve Frey
Aquanty’s Senior Scientist and Director of Research - Dr. Steve Frey - will take part in a panel discussion at the Climate Security Association of Canada’s (CSAC) Pacific Climate Security conference on February 1st, 2024.
Understanding the links between climate change and security is an urgent global priority for policymakers, scholars, civil society, and security and defence practitioners. Effectively
addressing these issues requires interdisciplinary and multi-method theorization, analysis, and
policy development. Join Dr. Frey, along with researchers from Northern Arizona University and University of Victoria for a panel discussion discussing specific impacts of climate change and their associated security concerns in Western North America.
“Understanding the multifaceted links between climate change and security across the global, national, and human levels of analysis is an urgent priority for policymakers, scholars, civil society, and security and defence practitioners. Complex relationships exist between the unfolding crisis of human-caused environmental change and phenomena such as armed conflict, violent extremism, migration, poverty, resource scarcity, political instability, economic prosperity, energy security, and community resilience, requiring interdisciplinary and multi-method analysis and policy development. Climate-related security challenges encompass changes in the international and domestic threat environments, the need to decarbonize defence and national security activities, and tensions among competing security priorities, electoral politics, and a range of social movements. Climate-related hazards will increase in coming years, making it vital to identify and support emerging leaders in the field of climate change and security, and to foster connections between scholars, analysts, and practitioners committed to addressing these inter-related social, political, economic, and ecological challenges.”