Since the first Security Council discussion on this topic in 2007, there has been real progress in tackling climate change, in tackling nature loss, and in adapting to climate impacts and in integrating this into peace and security into those efforts. But there is still much more to be done.

Climate change is accelerating: intensifying extreme weather events, disrupting ecosystems, threatening lives and livelihoods. We see this in all corners of the globe.

These impacts bring extreme and slow-onset devastation and degradation: not just the droughts and floods we see on the news, but the long-term food insecurity, water scarcity, loss of homes, in turn driving displacement and fuelling tensions.

These impacts are most severe in places that are already vulnerable, compounding and exacerba

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