ABSTRACT
The topic of this chapter is environmental security and it focuses on why this type of security should be of any relevance for small states. When environmental security is nested in the human security framework, as Barnett suggests, it shifts the emphasis from national security and the armed protection of territories towards a focus on the security of individuals and sustainable human development. International Panel on Climate Change 2007 (IPCC) brought a turning point in the securitization of climate change. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, firmly placed environmental issues on the agenda of international politics. Barnett uses the same premises as Deudney to conclude that so long as national security continues to be the domain of the military, then national security logic will be incapable of grasping environmental issues and dealing with them effectively.
