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The Council on Strategic Risks Significantly Expands Its Ecological Security Program
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The Council on Strategic Risks announced a significant expansion of its Ecological Security Program, which addresses the intersection of environmental degradation, climate change, and national/global security risks. The program focuses on how ecological disruptions can compound existing geopolitical instabilities and create cascading systemic threats.
Key Points
- •The Council on Strategic Risks is scaling up its Ecological Security Program to address growing environmental threats to global stability.
- •The program examines how climate change and ecological breakdown interact with security risks, conflict, and geopolitical instability.
- •Expansion reflects increasing institutional recognition that ecological risks are strategic security concerns, not merely environmental issues.
- •The initiative connects environmental science with national security policy communities to bridge disciplinary gaps.
- •Broader ecological security framing is relevant to existential and catastrophic risk communities studying compounding global threats.
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Home » climate and security » RELEASE: The Council on Strategic Risks Significantly Expands Its Ecological Security Program
RELEASE: The Council on Strategic Risks Significantly Expands Its Ecological Security Program
October 20, 2021 — To fill an urgent gap in understanding and addressing the security implications of global ecological disruption, the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) has significantly expanded its Ecological Security Program over the past months, with the help of a grant of close to $1 million from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. The program, housed within CSR’s Converging Risks Lab, addresses all elements of global ecological disruption, including biodiversity loss and beyond, caused by drivers such as habitat change, direct (and often illegal) exploitation of organisms, climate change, pollution, and the spread of damaging invasive or otherwise destructive organisms.
Ecological disruption–from the loss of biodiversity and their ecological benefits that support life or through the emergence of new ecological harms–remains largely absent from the agendas of the U.S. and international security communities. This absence persists despite its profound implications for political instability, geopolitical clashes, food and water stress, mass displacements of people, and other adverse security outcomes.
The warnings on biodiversity loss are increasingly dire. In 2020, a World Wildlife Fund report declared that losses were occurring at a rate unprecedented in history, with an average 68 percent decline in mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish since 1970. These global statistics underplay the extreme destruction in some regions, such as the tropics, while failing to capture declines in insects and other invertebrates that underpin ecological networks in soil, marine, and freshwater systems. UN Secretary General António Guterres echoed these sentiments last week during a major international conference devoted to combating biodiversity loss, warning of humanity’s “su
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