International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS)
- Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
- 25, Aug 2021
Why in News:
The IMCCS has recently released the world climate & security report 2021.
- The International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS) is a group of senior military leaders, security experts, and security institutions across the globe dedicated to anticipating, analyzing, and addressing the security risks of a changing climate.
- The launch of the IMCCS was announced at The Hague, Netherlands, in 2019 as a response to a growing demand from military professionals for sharing information and best practices on addressing the security and military dimensions of climate change.
- The IMCCS is administered by the Center for Climate and Security.
- World Climate and Security report is published recently by IMCCS.
- According to the report, the impact of climate change on water will increase the risk to global security in the next decade.
- The report has also highlighted that forced displacement and scale of natural disasters would increase by 2040, as a result the projected conflicts within nations would increase.
Facts for Prelims:
The Kola Peninsula:
The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the extreme northwest of Russia, and one of the largest peninsulas of Europe.