U.K. Appoints Climate Security Envoy as Thunberg Criticizes COP31 Leaders
The new envoy will coordinate Britain’s response to climate-related security risks as officials warn warming is worsening conflict, migration and food insecurity.
- On Thursday, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced the appointment of Madeleine Alessandri as special representative for climate security, one of the first such roles globally addressing national security risks from the climate crisis.
- The appointment follows a British government assessment earlier this year warning that ecosystem damage could disrupt food supplies and fuel conflict, a critical concern since Britain imports about 40% of its food.
- Addressing the summit, Burnham said Britain will place climate resilience high on the agenda when it assumes the G20 presidency next year, emphasizing the crisis is "not a distant threat" but "devastating lives and livelihoods everywhere."
- Seychelles Vice President Alix Sebastien Pillay and other global leaders urged increased climate financing, with Pillay stating climate action is "a fundamental issue to our national security, economic stability, sustainable development and our very survival."
- Meanwhile, independent climate analysis indicates global efforts have "failed to move the needle" on warming, with the world headed toward an irrecoverable overshoot of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
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U.K. appoints climate security envoy as Thunberg criticizes COP31 leaders
The United Kingdom on Thursday announced the appointment of a special envoy to tackle security threats from climate change while small island leaders called for urgent action, describing planet heating as a life-or-death issue for their people at the climate talks in the Turkish resort town of Antalya.
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ANTALYA, Turkey — The United Kingdom on Thursday announced the appointment of a special envoy to tackle security threats from climate change while small island leaders called for urgent action, describing planet heating as a life-or-death issue for their people…
In a speech to the UN climate summit COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, the Labour leader recalled that he spent his first three weeks as prime minister in the face of the worst forest fires ever recorded in the UK. "I decided then that it was important to be here to show British leadership in a world where climate issues have been too relegated to the background," said Burnham, the only G7 leader to attend the summit. UK and the rest of Western Europe l…
UK appoints ex-intelligence chief as first climate security envoy
The UK has appointed Dame Madeleine Alessandri, a former intelligence chief, as its first special representative for climate security, a world first. Read More: https://punchng.com/uk-appoints-ex-intelligence-chief-as-first-climate-security-envoy/
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