Immovable objects? Impediments to a UN Security Council resolution on climate change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3706330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Mcdonald (0000-0001-6636-2731, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1635-1651 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiad064 |
| OpenAlex | W4378713783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
The security implications of climate change are increasingly acknowledged in academic scholarship and in national security strategy documents. Climate change has also increasingly featured in UN Security Council (UNSC) debates since the first discussion of this topic in 2007. However, the UNSC has yet to agree a resolution formally recognizing its own role in addressing the implications of climate change for international security; a draft resolution on this issue was voted down in late 2021. Examining the statements and contours of 2021 debates preceding this vote, this article points to fundamental impediments to such a resolution, with the position of opponents (Russia, China and India) suggesting intractable obstacles linked to different visions of world order. While opponents' stated concerns about the UNSC's role in addressing climate change find some support in existing scholarship, the authenticity of claims made by opponents is called into question by the internal inconsistency of these arguments, the gap between stated concerns and foreign policy in other contexts, and the broader foreign policy interests and identities of these states. These factors present key impediments not simply to a UNSC resolution, but arguably to international action consistent with the urgency of the climate crisis
Business · Climate change · Foreign policy · Law and economics · National security · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Scholarship · Security council · Sociology · Vision · Global Energy Security and Policy · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management
Climate Change and National Security
In search of consensus
From rivals to partners
Defence and climate change
Accepting responsibility? Institutions and the security implications of climate change
Climate security in Southeast Asia
Climate change and security debates in the United Nations Security Council between 2007-2021
| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |