ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the nature of the EU's basic commitments in the area of climate security. The External Action Service and European Commission have supposedly high priority policies on climate security. Notwithstanding European efforts to have the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) assume a role in climate security, in general the EU has struggled to advance holistic notions of security at the multilateral level. The Lisbon Treaty gave the EU formal competence in energy policy. The EU would hinge its engagement on ensuring the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) develop an effective role as a route to rules-based cooperation across the Arctic. An Institute for Environmental Security (IES) report found that 'security dimension of climate change is not as widely covered in bilateral policy dialogues with third countries as it could be'. Critics decry that none of the profound changes that will occur to global political geography are anywhere near being integrated into strategic planning.
