Climate crisis threatens national security worldwide, warns Ed Miliband

Speaking ahead of the Cop31 UN climate summit in Turkey, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband warned that rapid global heating and climate breakdown present a severe national security threat to countries everywhere. He stated that scenarios once confined to science fiction are now regular occurrences, driving food insecurity, population movements, and economic instability. Miliband also pointed to ongoing fossil fuel shocks and warned that an overshoot of the 1.5C global heating threshold is now inevitable. He emphasized that the world must confront the consequences of failing to cut carbon emissions over the past three decades to prevent further hardship for billions of people.