Welcome

Welcome to this blog!

We, the members of the Climate Change and Security Student Working Group at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, will present the results of our bi-weekly meetings here. Our group members have backgrounds in economics, international relations, environmental studies, natural sciences and law.

We are concerned with the following core questions:

Is climate change "just" an environmental issue with economic implications or is it also a cause of national and international security problems? What are potential threat scenarios and consequences? What might be possible solutions and who will address this?

Our group started by discussing the meaning of the term security and whether the traditional narrow concept of security is still sufficient today. There will be more on this in a separate post.