Climate on Paper, War in Practice: Why National Security Strategies Still Downgrade an Existential Threat?
Most governments now mention climate change in their national security and defence strategies, yet only a handful treat it as more than a marginal issue. This analysis of nearly one hundred national documents shows how climate is squeezed into disaster management paragraphs while traditional threats still dominate. It argues that unless states rewrite their security agendas around the realities of a warming world, they will be planning for yesterday’s risks while tomorrow’s crises gather force.