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Conflict Prevention: Climate Change

Answer

The 2021 Integrated Review reasserts the Government's commitment to be a force for good in the world and outlines how the UK will continue to play a leading international role in conflict resolution and prevention and seeking multilateral solutions to climate change. A commitment that will be achieved by integrating foreign, security, defence and development policies (or the '3Ds' Development, Diplomacy and Defence).

The Ministry of Defence acknowledges climate change as a threat multiplier. It is already reshaping the global security landscape and amplifying many traditional security challenges whilst giving rise to new ones. Our response focuses on training across Defence, strengthening our understanding of threats and embedding analysis into strategy and capability decisions to enable planning for the changing environmental and security context.

In parallel, we are working across Government on the related diplomacy and development aspects of the Government's commitment and with international allies and partners to inform and strengthen our joint response.

Defence's analysis of the long-term future impacts of climate change signalled the need to build resilience, including through reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. As such, we are seeking to further drive down direct emissions, invest in renewables and embed energy efficiency measures, we must ensure we preserve our Operational Capabilities to remain effective and responsive in a climate changed world.

The Right Hon. Gentleman may also be interested in our Strategic approach to Climate Change which I published in March 2021 and can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-defence-climate-change-and-sustainability-strategic-approach

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

27514

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Climate change Conflict prevention

Link

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