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Against the flurry of international summits and meetings held on the environment — most recently the UN Summit on Climate Change — the critical issue of climate change has no doubt become the top security agenda for the global community. Spurred by a number of scientific studies on the catastrophic effects of climate change and more recently by the report of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), world leaders have agreed that climate change is now a global problem.
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N. Purvis and J. Busby (2004) ‘The Security Implications of Climate Change for the UN System’ in Geoffrey D. Dabelko (ed.) Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Report, Issue 10, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, pp. 67–73.
See World Health Organization, WHO (2002) The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Health Life (Geneva: The World Health Organization), p. 72, http://www.who.int/whr/2002/en/ (accessed 3 February 2009).
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Caballero-Anthony, M. (2010). Climate Change and Human Security in Southeast Asia: Issues and Challenges. In: Marquina, A. (eds) Global Warming and Climate Change. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281257_23
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