Securitizing Global Environmental Change

Abstract

The thesis of this chapter is that the year 2007 has been a turning point in the process of securitization of questions of global environmental change (GEC) and especially of global climate change (GCC) when several of the highest national policy-makers and highlevel fora (UN Security Council) and officials of international organizations addressed global warming (cause) and climate change (effect) as a major objective security danger and subjective security concern that may lead to internal displacements, forced distress migration, as well as crises and conflicts.