{"id":178331,"date":"2021-12-16T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=178331"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:20:31","slug":"russia-is-right-there-is-no-connection-between-climate-national-security-and-the-united-nations-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=178331","title":{"rendered":"Russia Is Right, There Is No Connection Between Climate, National Security, and the United Nations\u2019 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Russia recently vetoed the U.N. Security Council Resolution aimed at labeling climate change a threat to international peace and security. They were right to block the United Nations\u2019 efforts to expand its mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As described in an Associated Press (AP) story, titled\u00a0\u201cRussia vetoes UN resolution linking climate change, security,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0the resolution would have made fighting climate change central to the U.N.s\u2019 core and delegated mission to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation. Russia was joined in torpedoing this effort by India, which also voted no, and China, which, although abstaining spoke, out against the resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSpearheaded by Ireland and Niger, the proposal called for \u2018incorporating information on the security implications of climate change\u2019 into the council\u2019s strategies for managing conflicts and into peacekeeping operations and political missions, at least sometimes,\u201d writes the AP. \u201cThe measure also asked the U.N. secretary-general to make climate-related security risks \u2018a central component\u2019 of conflict prevention efforts and to report on how to address those risks in specific hotspots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia, India, and China were right to reject the climate\/conflict resolution. There is no evidence climate change is causing or exacerbating armed global conflicts, nor, as shown on Climate Realism, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, for example, is it not causing mass migration which, in some regions has resulted in or from conflict. Also, as explored here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, for example, there is no evidence climate change is hampering military preparedness in the United States or elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the AP\u2019s report, China\u2019s, India\u2019s, and Russia\u2019s U.N. envoys expressed concern that \u201cadding climate change to the Security Council\u2019s purview would only deepen global divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AP reports, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said the proposed resolution would turn \u201c\u2018a scientific and economic issue into a politicized question,\u2019 divert the council\u2019s attention from \u2026 \u2018genuine\u2019 sources of conflict in various places and give the council a pretext to intervene in virtually any country on the planet. \u2018This approach would be a ticking time bomb,\u2019\u201d said Nebenzia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s Ambassador Zhang Jun agreed, saying, \u201cWhat the Security Council needs to do is not a political show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s and Russia\u2019s geo-political moves are often objectionable. But their action to prevent the U.N. from treating global warming as an international security issue and a threat to peace, was justified. There are many sources of conflict within and between nations. There is no evidence climate change one of them. The U.N. has more than enough on its plate in its attempts to reduce conflict and secure peace around the world without going off on an unjustified tangent and adding climate change as a central concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By\u00a0H. Sterling Burnett<\/a>\u00a0-December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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