A dangerous mix of crises, environmental and security, poses complex risks to world peace, warns the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in a report released today.
Decision-makers have not been prepared for this “new era of danger,” the institute said in a report.
The text paints a bleak picture of the future international security situation, warns that environmental crises – climate change, scarcity, species extinction – interact with security crises and other threats, such as the pandemic. new coronavirus.
“The mixture is toxic, profound and damaging; and the institutions with the power to find solutions, including governments, are waking up too late,” said Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrρεm in the preamble to the report.
The report cites the situation in Somalia as an example, where the long drought and other consequences of climate change, combined with poverty and a weak central government, are leading people into the arms of the jihadist militant group Al Shabab.
While in Central America, the impact of climate change on crop yields, violence and corruption are increasing immigration to the United States.
Both in terms of safety and in terms of environmental protection, “the world has gone in the wrong direction, to the detriment of every country and the common good. “It’s a mutually damaging situation that needs to be resolved mutually beneficial.”
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