The European Union, NATO and US warned on Wednesday that climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to the planet, and have immediate, direct, and growing negative implications for security and defense.
The remarks were made in a joint press release following a meeting between EU High Representative Josep Borrell, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans in Brussels.
To that end, NATO and the EU will continue to strengthen their cooperation to address the security implications of climate change, it noted In the lead up to this year’s second annual NATO High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change and Security at the Vilnius Summit and the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, they will seek to identify opportunities to cooperate on new insights and operational information about security aspects of climate change and environmental degradation.
They will also cooperate on issues like green standards, and energy efficiency, including measuring greenhouse gas emissions from military activities and installations with the goal of reducing these emissions, it added.
They decided to continue high-level meetings on these issues, with the broad involvement of partners, including at COP28.
Source: Kuwait News Agency