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Energy and the environment are increasingly being
recognized as highly relevant to global security.
The workshop “Energy and Environmental Challenges to
Security” engaged political actors and key
policymakers (parliamentarians), academics and
stakeholders, including governmental authorities,
journalists and members of civil society, focusing
the international debate on these issues through a
high-level conference.
It provided an opportunity to
promote understanding, on the basis of sound
scientific knowledge, among critical players whose
actions will have a major impact on the future
course of development and on security-related
matters, and to reach out to targeted groups from
among the international initiatives related to
energy, environment and security that represent the
latest thinking on the subject.
Anticipated global, regional and transboundary threats to security resulting from
energy and environmental policies and conditions
were presented and discussed. The workshop brought together key
experts on relevant issues such as climate change,
natural resources management and renewable energy,
risk assessment and risk management, institutional
theory, and conflict resolution. |
The keynote address, “Sources of
Environmental Security Concerns”, will be given by
Professor Norman Myers, Oxford University, Duke
University. Professor Myers was recently voted one of Time Magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” |
