CLIMATE-SECURITY WARGAMING:Taking on the hyperthreat in Southeast Asia

Wargame write-up by CCIP’s Elizabeth Boulton.

"In March 2023, ASEAN [1] postgraduate students war-gamed ‘PLAN E’ – a concept for a climate emergency response; they were the first people in the world to do so. The scenario involved a heat crisis in Southeast Asia, exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño.

The activity identified five key risks, some of which are not prominent in current climate security or climate emergency discourse. The wargame differed from past approaches to climate security wargaming in that it utilised a different theoretical framework ­– eco-military theory – which centres the climate and ecological crisis as the preeminent threat (a hyperthreat).”

Full article here.