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POLICY BRIEFS The United Nations and Environmental Security: Recommendations for the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change 52 Calling this post-Iraq moment “no less decisive than 1945 itself,” in 2003 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan convened a High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change to improve how the United Nations prevents and removes threats to peace. Eminent world citizens like Brent Scowcroft, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Sadako Ogata, and Nafis Sadik were asked to recommend clear and practical measures for ensuring effective collective responses to the world’s security problems, ranging from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to “soft threats” like extreme poverty and disease. Environmental issues are firmly on the UN agenda, but they tend to remain discrete topics that lack sufficient coordination across agencies. The secretary-general has repeatedly maintained that environmental issues must be integrated into the UN’s larger development and security agenda, as outlined in his 2003 interim report on the prevention of armed conflict. In preparation for its December 2004 report, the High-Level Panel sought recommendations that, if adopted, would inject environmental issues into the security dialogue and transform speech into results. As part of the UN Foundation’s United Nations and Global Security Initiative, the Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) invited international experts to provide the panel with fresh intellectual insights into environmental security. Leading thinkers in the fields of water, climate change, and natural resources prepared three short policy briefs (included here with permission of the UN Foundation) that seek to answer three questions posed by the panel: • What is the link between environment and security? • What can be done about it? • What contributions can be made by collective action mechanisms such as the United Nations? A select group of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners discussed these papers at the Woodrow Wilson Center on June 2, 2004. A report summarizing the group’s recommendations to the High-Level Panel can be downloaded from ECSP (http://www.wilson center.org/ecsp). For more information on the UN Foundation’s United Nations and Global Security Initiative and a complete listing of input papers to the High-Level Panel, please visit http://www.un-globalsecurity.org. ECSP REPORT • ISSUE 10 • 2004
U.N. flag (Credit: Corbis) References Annan, Kofi. (2003, September 23). “The Secretary- General: Address to the General Assembly” [Transcript of speech]. United Nations. Retrieved November 2, 2004, from http://www.un.org/ webcast/ga/58/statements/sg2eng030923.htm United Nations. (2003, September 12). Interim report of the Secretary-General on the prevention of armed conflict (Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization, A/58/365–S/2003/888). New York: United Nations. United Nations. (2003, November 4). Secretary- General names high-level panel to study global security threats, and recommends necessary changes [Press release]. Retrieved November 2, 2004, from http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ sga857.doc.htm 53 POLICY BRIEF • THE UNITED NATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
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