National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment

The consequences of the climate crisis can already be felt all over the world. Across the globe, they are aggravating conflicts over ever scarcer resources which are destabilising states and societies and forcing countless people to leave their homes. They are also having an ever greater impact on us in Europe. That makes this crisis the biggest security challenge of our time.

The connection between climate and security is also a fundamental aspect of the National Security Strategy adopted by the German Government in June 2023. In addition, the Federal Government Strategy on Climate Foreign Policy and the Federal Ministry of Defence’s Strategy on Defence and Climate Change have created a key strategic basis which will enable us to systematically incor- porate climate into our security policy. The aim of these strategies is to ensure that we utilise our instruments as effectively and proactively as possible.

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