Without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies' adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and international security to a new degree. However, climate change could also unite the international community. This is provided that we recognize climate change as a threat to humankind and so set the course for adopting a dynamic and globally coordinated climate policy. If we fail to do so, climate change will draw ever-deeper lines of division and conflict in international relations, triggering numerous conflicts between and within countries over the distribution of resources - especially water and land, and over the management of migration, or over compensation payments between the countries mainly responsible for climate change and those countries most affected by its destructive effects.  With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.

Climate Change as a Security Risk

Science & Math

Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim

Biological Sciences

Routledge

Der Klimawandel: Diagnose, Prognose, Therapie

Rahmstorf, Stefan

Beck C. H.

Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.

Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure (Global Change- The IGBP Series) (Book & CD-ROM)

Matson, Pamela A.

Steffen, Will

Sanderson, Regina Angelina

Tyson, Peter D.

Jäger, Jill

Moore III, Berrien

Oldfield, Frank

Richardson, Katherine

Turner, Billie L.

Wasson, Robert J.

Springer

Alarmierender Report über die selbstzerstörerischen Folgen einer ungebremsten Erderwärmung\n»Um jedes Zehntelgrad zu kämpfen« lohne sich, davon ist Deutschlands wichtigster Klimaforscher mit internationaler Reputation überzeugt. Er streitet seit Jahrzehnten darum, dass Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft dem Klimawandel und seinen dramatischen Folgen endlich ins Auge sehen – und alles daran setzen, ihn aufzuhalten.\nIn einem brisanten Thesenbuch spitzt er seine Kritik noch einmal zu: Nach derzeitigem Wissensstand bewegt sich unsere Zivilisation nicht auf die oft genannte Zwei-Grad-Grenze, sondern viel dramatischer auf eine Erwärmung von 3 bis 4 Grad Celsius bis Ende des Jahrhunderts zu. Die fortgesetzte Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger droht zum kollektiven Suizid zu führen. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber fasst das aktuelle Wissen in aller Schärfe zusammen, damit die Politiker auf der »Schicksalskonferenz« in Paris im Spätherbst 2015 die letzte Chance zum Umsteuern ergreifen.

Selbstverbrennung: Die fatale Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen Klima, Mensch und Kohlenstoff

Environment

C.Bertelsmann Verlag

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