Climate change is high on both national and European political agendas as all countries need to address the environmental challenges. This workshop aims to focus some of this attention on immediate and future, but inevitable, impact of climate change on international and domestic security affairs and related policy implications. 

Climate change no longer is considered solely as an environmental issue thus its implications are considered in a variety of contexts stemming from social, through cultural, agricultural, industrial to economic. The documented effects of climate change like global average temperature increase, rise in sea levels, and altered weather patterns generate security consequences, presenting new challenges to societies like intercommunal tensions, changes in rates and types of crime, new legislations and questioning the policing methods and technology.

The workshop aims to identify the most pressing trends and threats, and to propose actions that the research community could undertake to support the adaptation process.

Agenda:

09:00 – 09.30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09.30 – 10:00 Welcome and Opening: Marta Cygan, Director of Innovation and Audit Directorate, DG HOME
10:00 – 11:30 PANEL 1: IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
11:30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30 PANEL 2: IMPACT ON CRIME STRUCTURE AND RATES.
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00 PANEL 3: IMPACT ON THE PRACTIONERS` BUSINESS MODEL.
16.00 – 16:15 Wrap-up and Closing
16:15 Networking Cocktail

Register for the workshop here.