Informal EU-US dialogue on the climate-security nexus

Today, representatives of the European Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the European Defense Agency (EDA) met with their colleagues from the US administration, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the National Security Council and USAID. to discuss at director level the growing challenges posed by climate change and environmental degradation to peace, security and defense (see Annex with key participants).

Given the unprecedented threat that climate change and environmental degradation pose to global peace and security, this informal dialogue provided a platform to discuss the growing global risks and impacts of climate and natural crises from a "whole of government" perspective. The EU's integrated approach aims to solve this most complex problem through the coordinated involvement of EU support in development cooperation, humanitarian aid, climate and environmental measures, migration, energy security, civil-military missions and the development of military infrastructures. (More on eeas.europa.eu)