Climate, Ocean and Security Challenges

The report discusses how climate change impacts the world's oceans and coastal communities, specifically highlighting that sea-level rise will cause severe suffering and disproportionately affect poorer, rural coastal areas. It notes that for small island states and politically fragile, climate-vulnerable countries, these changes constitute a matter of state and collective security. The findings are based on a November 2020 science-policy dialogue involving experts from Northern Europe.

• Climate change is expected to have significant consequences for the global ocean, marine life, and coastal communities, with sea-level rise specifically predicted to cause severe suffering in societies.
• The impacts of rising sea levels will be distributed unequally, with the most severe effects occurring in poorer, rural coastal areas.
• Climate change is a matter of state and collective security for small island states and for the 70% of the most climate-vulnerable countries that are also among the most politically fragile.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Climate, Ocean and Security Challenges. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-ocean-security-challenges/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate, Ocean and Security Challenges. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-ocean-security-challenges/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate, Ocean and Security Challenges}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-ocean-security-challenges/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }