ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the major risks associated with climate change and fragility to illustrate the scope of the challenge. It discusses political processes on climate change, international security and foreign policies. These processes can illustrate the importance of moving from risk analysis to preventive action and how to integrate climate change concerns into development, foreign, and security policies. By encompassing the full range of available policies, including development cooperation, conflict prevention, and humanitarian assistance, as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation, a new profile of climate diplomacy is evolving. In addition, disaster risk reduction and effective disaster management efforts can provide opportunities to improve resilience to climate-fragility risks and build peace. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 1992 as well as the Kyoto Protocol from 1997 have been highly influential in establishing a portfolio of policy innovations worldwide to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to unavoidable climate changes.
