French MPs: Diplomacy, military slow to address climate change as driver of armed conflict
Diplomats and armed forces have been slow to address the security consequences of climate change, a French parliament fact-finding mission concluded on Wednesday (27 January). EURACTIV France reports. While the co-rapporteurs of the fact-finding mission, socialist MP Alain David and centrist MP Frédéric Petit (MoDem), pointed out that no armed conflict caused by climate change has so far occurred at the international level, their report clearly shows the extent to which climate change is causing serious international tensions, both for the people and states. These tensions are likely to lea...
Source: euractiv.com