Recommendation 4

Climate breakdown threatens lives, livelihoods and infrastructure, and taking steps to ensure continued climate stability must be a national security priority for any government. The increasing frequency and ferocity of extreme weather events, floods, droughts and heatwaves which is manifest at the current 1.1°C average heating should serve as an alarm call. The impact that these weather extremes can have on national infrastructure has recently been all too apparent: there were striking examples of energy generating facilities across Europe being affected by the heatwave and drought in the summer of 2022. The world is currently on track to exceed the 1.5°C threshold that the Paris Agreement was intended to prevent.