Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Energy Prescriptions of The Atlantic Council: “There’s a Direct Relationship Between Climate Change and Geopolitics”

Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013. (Photo Credit: Asian Development Bank)
The implications of climate change targets not being met are massive migration, the potential for resource wars and “a further disintegrating of the international order”, according to Richard L. Morningstar, Founding Director and Chairman of the Global Energy Center and David Koranyi, Director of the Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative, both part of the Washington DC based think tank The Atlantic Council.  Morningstar and Koranyi see a “direct relationship between climate change, geopolitics and global security”.  They argue Europe should promote the role of gas and oppose Nord Stream 2.  The election of Donald Trump would be “catastrophic in the climate and energy space”.

Read more at The Energy Prescriptions of The Atlantic Council:  “There’s a Direct Relationship Between Climate Change and Geopolitics”

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