Climate ‘securitising’ by the Pacific

Abstract

In this chapter, Sālā George Carter describes how Pacific Island countries have individually and as a region securitised climate security-the merging of climate change and security policies. He describes how Pacific Island countries have acted on the international stage to highlight the impacts of climate change to Pacific Small Island Developing States, and the potential that climate change has to cause instability and conflict. He also notes that the climate change conversation is going on amid geopolitical competition, which Pacific states have utilised to ensure that partners have to engage in climate change discussions to be able to partner with the region.