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Security
Climate change, energy and global security: the role of the UN Security Council.
Different subterranean currents are merging, heralding a perfect storm on the horizon: the increasing scarcity of conventional oils will lead to the peak of extraction in barely a decade; the climate crisis caused by emissions that present a powerful inertia, threatening to surpass the safety threshold of + 2Cº in the average atmospheric temperature; important geopolitical changes taking place, owing to the mass shift of financial resources and economic power from West to East, with the emergence of new centres of world power such as China and India. Seven states - USA, EU, China, Russia, India, Japan and Brazil - have the solution to climate change. They are responsible for two out of every three tonnes of greenhouse gas currently emitted into the atmosphere. The burgeoning energy/climate crisis is putting global security at risk. The UN Security Council - with the incorporation of India, Japan and Brazil - is shaping up to be the most powerful and effective institutional structure we have to channel this crisis.
Keywords: Security Council, conventional oils, climate crisis.
