Outlook: Operating in Times of Climate Change

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Its effects, such as changing weather patterns and rising sea levels, have severe security implications. Climate change impacts human health, infrastructure, and transport systems, affects energy, food, and water supplies, and fuels conflict and instability. In order to address these challenges, actors around the world will have to change the way they operate to enhance their understanding of, adapt to, and mitigate the effects of a changing climate.

How do different stakeholder and sectors define the biggest threats climate change poses for their way of doing business? How will climate change impact security challenges in the next decade? What have been effective adaptation and mitigation strategies? What is the role of technological innovation in addressing climate change? What partnerships will be most effective in addressing this immense challenge?