Spearheaded by Ireland and Niger, the proposal called for “incorporating information on the security implications of climate change” so the council could “pay due regard to any root causes of conflict or risk multipliers.”

The measure also asked the U.N. Secretary-General to make climate-related security risks “a central component” of conflict prevention strategies and to report on how to address those risks in specific hotspots.

Prior Council resolutions have mentioned destabilizing effects of climate change in specific places, such as various African countries and Iraq.

But Monday’s resolution would have been the first devoted to climate-related security danger as an issue of its own.

Some 113 of the U.N.’s 193 member countries supported the proposal, including 12 of the council’s 15 members.

But India and veto-wielding Russia voted No, while China Abstained.

Source: Associated Press, 13/12/2021