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Climate Change: Creating a Secure Climate

Jennifer Morgan, May 2008

The World Today, Volume 64, Number 5

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Climate change will be at the top of the agenda when leaders of the world's major economies gather in Japan for the G8 Summit in July. The science is clear on the need for an ambitious and rapid response. Almost all heads of government now have a basic understanding that without climate security they will be unable to meet their economic or development goals. This makes reducing global greenhouse emissions a vital national interest and a core issue for international diplomacy.