IRMO Brief 01/2023 - Climate Diplomacy: Challenges for the Future

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, and our involvement in new global policies on the national and global level that relate to this extremely demanding and complex area - climate policy - also largely depends on the well-prepared and set-up foreign policy of any country. Increased water shortages, floods, wildfires, and extreme weather directly affect the lives of millions of people around the world and in some cases coerce people into migrating or causing violent conflicts, with the aim of occupying new territories less threatened by extreme climate change.

In 2007, the independent organisation International Alert published a report which identified 46 countries at risk of violent conflict and an additional 56 countries facing a high risk of instability as a result of climate change.

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