BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ed2216c47cb0923440fd8527d86051c5 DTSTAMP:20260619T163346Z SUMMARY:Climate as a security issue: challenges and opportunities DESCRIPTION:Climate as a security issue: challenges and opportunities for U K researchers and relevant stakeholders\nThe relationship between climate change and security has become a critical debate between researchers and p olicymakers\, as they grapple with the different\, overlapping impacts of global interdependencies\, socio-political change\, human mobility\, urban isation and climate change. \nGlobal humanitarian crises such as in the L ake Chad Basin\, Syria\, and Iraq have led stakeholders – especially at the global level – to question the ‘root causes’\, to develop better policy measures which prevent and ‘sustain peace’. At times\, this ha s led to an over simplification of potential conflict causes\, with climat e change as a driver being a particularly strong narrative. While the medi a and policymakers have been quick to adopt climate change as a threat mul tiplier\, researchers have fiercely debated the supporting evidence.\nPoli cymakers and a collective of NGOs have brought the climate-security debate to the forefront of global policy over the last 18 months. A UN Security Council (UNSC) debate\, hosted by Sweden in July 2018\, discussed the role of climate change in ongoing conflicts in Iraq and the Lake Chad Basin. T he UNSC debates and initiatives like the Planetary Security Initiative\, h ave repeatedly called for better linking up of researchers – across dis ciplines\, with policymakers and practitioners – to ensure the best know ledge on climate-related security risks is reaching decision-makers.\nDesp ite a strong cohort of UK researchers – with deep expertise on issues wh ich could help to elucidate and nuance the climate change and security rel ationship – there is significantly more scope for policy and practise up take. This is the same scenario for many regions\, especially those in the global south that are talked about in these climate-security discussions. An ‘Expert Working Group on Climate-Related Security Risks’ was launc hed at the July UNSC Debate. It aims to to work directly with researchers across the world to produce timely\, non-partisan\, assessments.\nAt this event\, speakers will present their views on the climate and security rela tionship\, and how UK research can be better represented in relevant polic y and practise work. Attendees will have the opportunity to feedback to th e panel and reflect on where they think the research-policy interface need s to move forward. All attendees will then work in small-groups to conside r new ways that researchers\, policy and practitioners can practically and constructively engage in the future and support uptake of UK research in policy arenas. \nAt the end of the event\, the panel will respond to the newly raised suggestions.\n \nRead the Grantham Institute briefing paper:  Climate change\, low-carbon transitions and security\nIf you would like to register your interest for this event\, please contact grantham.events @imperial.ac.uk. Please note that places are limited to those who receive a follow-up reply with an invitation. \nJoin us on Twitter: @Grantham_IC | #Climate&Security\nAgenda\n\nAgenda\n\n07:45 Registration opens\n08:00  Networking breakfast\n08:30  Welcome by Professor Martin Siegert\, Gran tham Institute\, Imperial College London | @mjsiegert\n08:32  Presentatio n by Camilla Born\, E3G – Director of Expert Working Group | @camillab orn\n08:40  Presentation by Louise van Schaik\, Clingendael Internation al Sustainability Centre\n08:48  Q&A from the audience to Camilla Born an d Louise van Schaik\n08.55 3 x 7 minutes presentations in the following or der by Dr Ayesha Siddiqi\, Royal Holloway University of London\; Dr Naho Mirumachi\, Kings College London and Professor Jan Selby\, Sussex Univ ersity\;\n09:16  Q&A from the audience to Dr Siddiqi\, Dr Mirumachi and P rof Selby | @jan_selby\n09:30  Roundtable discussions\n09:50  Responses by tables (3 x 3mins)\n10:10  Take home messages from each of the speake rs (4 mins each)\n10:30  Summing up Dr Amiera Sawas\, author of Grantham Institute Briefing Paper 25 ‘Climate change\, low-carbon transitions a nd security’ | @Amierasawas\n10:35  Networking\n10:50  End\n \nBiog raphies\n \nAyesha Siddiqi\nAyesha Siddiqi is a lecturer in human geograp hy at Royal Holloway University of London. Her research asks political que stions around the state-citizen relationship in aftermath of natural hazar d related disasters and climate change. She is particularly interested in understanding the ways that disasters and political conflict intersect and is currently leading a UK government Global Challenges Research Fund (GCR F) project on this topic in the Philippines. Ayesha has a background in en vironmental consulting and is also interested in financial and technologic al innovations in the climate change and disasters space. She has also wor ked on an American undergraduate program on climate change that travelled across the world studying environmental impacts in different social and p olitical contexts. Ayesha obtained a Ph.D. in war studies and geography fr om King’s College London.\nJan Selby\nJan Selby is Professor of Internat ional Relations at the University of Sussex. His research centres on polit ical ecology and environmental security\, especially in relation to water\ , climate change and energy\, though has also explored questions relating to conflict\, peace-building and development\, International Relations the ory\, and Middle East politics. Recent publications include assessments of the role of climate change in the Syrian civil war (Political Geography 2 017\; Geoforum 2018)\; an analysis of the implications of the Trump admini stration for global action on climate change (Review of International Stud ies 2018)\; a call for a new research and policy agenda on the impacts of ‘invisible energy policies’ on energy demand reduction (Energy Policy 2018)\; and a reflection on the limitations of the ‘impact agenda’ wit hin UK higher education (British Politics\, 2018). \nLouise van Schaik\nD r. Louise van Schaik is the Project Manager of the Planetary Security Init iative. She is the Head of the Clingendael International Sustainability Ce ntre at the Clingendael Institute. Her fields of expertise are climate cha nge & natural resources policies in relation to security and migration\, g lobal health and EU external action. Louise has considerable experience wi th the acquisition\, development and management of (large) research projec ts for various clients. She has a Master’s degree in Public Administrati on from Leiden University (2003) and a PhD in Political Science from the K U Leuven (2010). URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/97975/climate-as-a-security-issue-cha llenges-and-opportunities/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181120T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181120T103000 LOCATION:United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181120T080000 TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR