Escalating Threats: How Climate Change Increasingly Affects Human Security

In today’s geopolitical climate, security debates have taken centre stage. However, defense measures alone clearly cannot match the crisis. Complex security challenges require a set of equally sophisticated responses based on co-operation and multilateralism.

Climate change adds to this crisis, posing global threats to national and human security.

In this publication, we want to show how exacerbated climate change impacts affect human security. We have selected examples of extreme weather events that occurred in 2024 and a number of slow onset processes that illustrate the point, and highlight why human security urgently needs priority in national and international policy agendas.