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Climate change and global security – BNP Paribas Asset Management

Climate change is a threat to life on earth and it has become clearer that it can also be a threat multiplier for instability, argue Edward Lees and Ulrik Fugmann of BNP Paribas Asset Management Environmental Strategies group.

Posted on Apr 11, 2022

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... In a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in February 2021, naturalist David Attenborough called climate change ‘the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced’.

Much of the debate on climate change focuses on the devastating effect of the increase in carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, rising sea levels and temperatures, soil erosion, deforestation, and toxification of nature. All are a major threat to populations and the fight against poverty around the world, leading to a potentially devastating and lasting effect for life on planet Earth.

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