From rising seas to rising risks

From rising seas to rising risks

Climate change is often framed as an environmental story — melting glaciers, rising seas, intensifying storms. Increasingly, however, it is also being viewed through a security lens. In Mexico and around the world, defense planners and policy experts are examining how climate pressures interact with political instability, economic fragility and resource scarcity. The core idea is not that climate change directly causes conflict. Rather, it can m…