United States: Climate change will lead to a less secure, more crisis-prone world (report)
Washington – Climate change will lead to a less secure and more crisis-prone world that will strain international institutions, according to the National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) quadrennial global trends report, released this week in Washington.
The seventh edition of this study, titled “Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World”, places climate change among the main structural forces that will shape the next two decades, noting that global warming, as well as disease epidemics, crises financial and other forces, will test the “resilience and adaptability” of the international system.
“Climate change will increasingly worsen the risks to human and national security and will force states to make difficult choices and compromises,” according to the authors of this study.
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