In the long-run climate change is an existential issue for our species. In the short term, it is an existential threat for democracy. As world leaders from the United States to the European Union and India commit to ambitious carbon cuts, we must tie in climate change discussions with an urgent agenda to help democracies rise to this global challenge. Our future rides on it.

The connections between democracy and climate change are here to see. Climate change is impacting democratic governance with its effects on food security, migration, water scarcity and the financial impact of extreme weather events. 

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/is-climate-change-an-existential-threat-to-democracy/

 

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