Saleha Tabassum
Zoology
December 2022
The idea that climate change poses a threat to national security is not new, and academic experts have been mulling over the possibility of utilizing the United Nations Security Council to confront this threat for quite some time. However, in recent years there has been an increasing trend to perceive the possibility in terms of its substance. This might be attributed to a growing feeling of urgency. Despite the expanding body of research on the subject, there is still a lack of understanding on the types of actions that may be taken by the Security Council in the event that it decided to get involved in the issue of climate change and whether or not such actions would be possible. This paper seeks to begin to address this gap by analyzing the core legal and practical issues surrounding the potential for Council action in three key areas: the creation of climate mitigation obligations; the avoidance of existing commitments which risk posing a
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