Ed Miliband says national security of all countries at risk from climate crisis
Summary
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband will tell leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey that climate change poses a national security threat to every country. He is expected to link rising temperatures and fossil-fuel price shocks to food shortages, economic disruption, migration and conflict, and call for stronger action after the likely overshoot of the 1.5°C warming threshold.Key Facts
- Miliband is scheduled to speak at the leaders’ segment of the two-week COP31 talks in Antalya on Wednesday.
- He says climate change threatens food security and infrastructure and can drive population movements and conflict.
- Miliband says fossil-fuel price shocks are becoming routine and pointed to higher oil prices following the Iran war.
- The article says global temperatures have exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels for two years and are unlikely to fall significantly soon.
- Miliband argues that an overshoot of 1.5°C calls for stronger policies to limit further warming and eventually return temperatures to safer levels.
- The leaders’ segment is to open with speeches by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
- The article says Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will skip the summit.
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