Headline : A Shift in Global Security Threats

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“Climate change could exacerbate cross-border geo-political flashpoints, as countries seek to advance and protect their own interests,” said Deputy Secretary Verma.

While the world still faces security threats from malign states and actors looking to overturn the post-World War II architecture, including terrorism and rogue states looking to expand their territories at their neighbors’ expense, the world has changed. Today, we struggle against transnational challenges that respect no boundary, said Richard Verma, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources.

The three main concerns are a global pandemic and its impact; misuse of the enormous advances in technology that can be used to deliberately misinform people, to rob them, and even to surveil and harass entire populations; and finally, climate change. We have already experienced the first two and have developed new tools to deal with the first two.

But climate change is an entirely different matter. “The first vector is the impact of climate change on the most vulnerable around the world: those who are already facing poverty or internal civil strife,” or those with high exposure, said Deputy Secretary Verma.

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