The EU and Climate Security: Toward Ecological Diplomacy

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Carnegie Europe has released a major new policy report today: The EU and Climate Security: Toward Ecological Diplomacy.

This insightful publication navigates through the EU’s commitment to climate change action, particularly in relation to energy consumption. It focuses on the, ‘European Green Deal’ and the policy development required to transition to a low-carbon economy.  

The impressive team of authors analyse the EU’s aim of becoming a stronger geopolitical power, exploring how climate change policy could further this goal. 

A focus is placed on the EU moving towards a systematic framework that would facilitate climate secure peace. This publication examines the mechanisms needed to measure the impacts of wider ecological policy and the requirements necessary to promote international partnership as well as the de-escalation of geopolitical competition over resources. 

The publication highlights the weaknesses in current approaches and suggests ways forward to amplify qualitative changes that would result in a more stable political ecosystem and geopolitical power base.