Climate Change has an Impact on Peace and Security

From @ForeignAffairsKE

CS Raychelle Omamo contributing during a Ministerial United Nations Security Council virtual open debate on Climate and Security says Climate Change has an impact on peace and security, not only as a risk in itself, but as a risk multiplier of conflict, insecurity and State fragility.

Climate Change interferes with water resources and worsens food security which causes inter-communal conflict over scarcity resulting in forced migration and the haphazard urbanization of many areas in Africa. Several nations in Africa are confronting extreme climate events.

She urged the United Nations Security Council to actively engage on improvement in early warning and predictive systems that will enable Member States to identify and to map #climate change hotspots, in order to procure critical and verifiable data to enable decision making and conflict prevention.

CS Omamo urged the United Nations Security Council to strengthen linkages that exists between the Security Council, and regional and continental agencies, such as the African Union

to have early warning mechanisms that can provide timely information and analysis to bring transformation needed.

CS Raychelle Omamo during the Ministerial debate said that a key portion of Kenya’s effort as a member of the UNSC 2021-22 will be dedicated to moving the environmental and Climate Change agenda forward.