Russia Vetoes Attempt to Link Climate Change to UN Security Council’s ‘Peace and Security’ Mandate An attempt by the U.N. Security Council to pass what would have been the first-ever standalone resolution linking climate change and the council’s primary mandate of maintaining international peace and security was torpedoed Monday by Russia.
Russia used its veto power to kill the resolution drafted by Ireland and Niger. India also voted “no” while China abstained.
The draft stressed the need for a “comprehensive, whole of U.N. approach to address climate change and its effects,” asked the secretary-general to “integrate climate-related security risk as a central component into comprehensive conflict-prevention strategies,” and called for the security implications of climate change to be incorporated into the analyses and activities of U.N. peace missions.................
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