A climate of insecurity?A short review of discussions onsecurity implications of climate change in theUnited Nations, the European Union and Germany

Climate change has developed into a key concern of a globalised world, with huge attentionin popular and media discourses and with consequences in virtually all fields ofscience and politics. As a cross-cutting issue, climate change is connecting distant andsometimes highly controversial fields. Hence it is not surprising that climate change isalso grouped together with all imaginable regional and global conflicts. And, when applyinga rather broad understanding of conflict, it is generally quite plausible that climatechange is going to have an effect on intra- and international tensions....