UN Security Council

'Planetary Insolvency': GDP could face a 50 per cent hit unless world acts now to curb emissions, report warns

Climate change

'Planetary Insolvency': GDP could face a 50 per cent hit unless world acts now to curb emissions, report warns

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries warns climate impacts will become 'future national security issue' unless urgent policy measures are introduced to curb emissions and enhance resilience

clock 16 January 2025 • 5 min read

Politics

Boris Johnson: 'Climate change is a threat to our collective security'

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's and Sir David Attenborough's addresses to the UN Security Council meeting on climate security

clock 24 February 2021 • 9 min read

Politics

Johnson and Attenborough warn of global security threat from climate breakdown

'If we don't act now, when will we act?' asks UK PM as he chairs first ever UN Security Council meeting on climate security

clock 23 February 2021 • 5 min read