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The international community recognizes almost universally that climate change could potentially result in serious challenges for human security and national security this century.1 The adequate concept of ‘security’ goes beyond the absence of internal state conflicts or conflicts between states. The addition of the ‘human’ adjective next to ‘security’, which served to justify several crucial activities carried out by the United Nations in the 1990s, was the final step after two decades of academic debate on the main scope of this concept, now quite far from the traditional one.
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Sterling, A.Y. (2010). IPCC Assessment Reports: Challenges Presented. In: Marquina, A. (eds) Global Warming and Climate Change. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281257_2
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