New York, Sep 23 (EFE) .- The climatic consequences are aggravating the existing conflicts in the most vulnerable areas of the world, particularly in the countries of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, according to what the speakers in the debate revealed this Thursday UN Security Council theme on “climate and security” held on the occasion of the UN General Assembly.
In fact, of the twenty countries most affected by armed conflicts, twelve of them are also among the most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis, such as persistent droughts or torrential rains that have the immediate effects of massive population displacements, especially in the surroundings of Lake Chad and in Somalia.
Drought, for example, causes recurring tensions in Africa between farmers and herders over the use of fertile land, and these tensions are opportunely exploited by armed extremist groups, exacerbating the cycle of violence.
80% of the blue helmets that the UN has deployed around the world are precisely in countries that are highly vulnerable to climate effects, as highlighted by the President of the Council, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, who asked that the peace missions of the UN also include climate issues in its mandate due to its evident impact on the security of the affected populations.
But these effects are not exclusive to the African region, as they also appear in areas such as Iraq, the Mekong Delta or small island states, the latter threatened with disappearance in the medium term if, as a consequence of the thaw, the sea level rises and engulfs large parts of its coasts.
Although the poorest countries are the ones that are suffering the most from the climatic consequences, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, stressed that it is a global problem, and gave an example: the recent Hurricane Ida, which has hit with a unusual force to the city of New York and New Jersey, claimed fifty dead, although the vast majority were “low-income people.”
As it is a global problem, it requires global solutions, according to the attendees, and some of the most repeated proposals were: create a shared database to prevent catastrophes and plan responses, appoint a Special Representative for “climate and security “and consider this binomial in all action of conflict resolution policies.
“The fight for the climate is a fight for peace and security, it is a geopolitical bet,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who recalled that natural disasters have killed two million people since 1978. , not counting the millions of displaced people.
Within the general consensus in the debates on the risks of the climate for security, some interveners, such as the representatives of China, Russia or India, were less alarmist than the others on the security aspects, and above all they were reticent at the time to give the Security Council powers to redirect policies with an approach that links both issues. EFE
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