Around the world, small island developing states are facing an escalating crisis fueled by unsustainable debt repayments, exorbitant borrowing costs, and geopolitical competition. Despite an eagerness to invest in sustainable development at home, they are at the mercy of richer countries – and a changing climate.
Across Africa, climate change has become an acute threat to national security. The effects of adverse climate conditions are deepening gaps in access to food, water, and energy, while shrinking natural resources, social disruptions, and mass displacements are heightening the risk of conflict.
Just as Donald Trump’s overall economic strategy is based on nostalgia for a bygone era, his fossil-fuel-centered energy policies would represent a quixotic attempt to reverse history. He would ultimately fail, but not before doing a great deal of damage to US competitiveness and security.
The Chinese government knows that balancing decarbonization, domestic economic and social stability, and its global aspirations will remain a formidable challenge in the years ahead. But it also recognizes that pursuing climate security represents an economic, social, and political opportunity.
Climate change is more than just an environmental or economic problem; it is also a threat multiplier that has forced military leaders to adapt their operations and strategies from the ground up. With its proactive, non-ideological approach, the US defense establishment offers a useful model to follow.
Although policies based on mainstream neoclassical economics, famously enshrined in the Washington Consensus, have clearly failed, economic theory has remained in a state of paralyzed confusion. What has been missing is a full shift to modern modes of thought informed by contemporary science.
Although multilateral efforts to address climate change are not well served by deepening geopolitical rivalries or the apparent trend toward global economic fragmentation, that doesn’t mean governments have abandoned the pursuit of net-zero emissions. Instead, the process has become more competitive – and more complex.
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Karen Chapman is a Toronto-based filmmaker who’s an alum of the TIFF Talent Lab. She’s directed short films including Walk Good (16) and the 2019 Festival selection Measure, as well as episodes of TV shows that include Black Life: Untold Stories (TIFF ’23). Village Keeper (24) is her dramatic feature debut.
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