ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the potential for environmental protection measures specifically the management of climate change of transition out of the realm of global governance into the arena of Security Council mandated peace and security, and the potential for the Security Council to create new environmental legal obligations on all UN member states and the impact of such activity on international peace and security. The role of the Council in extending the traditional scope of international peace and security to include climate change and climate change-induced crises. In June 1972, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was founded at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Fifteen years later, the World Commission on Environment and Development impressed upon the international community the imperative to the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The UNFCCC and its subsequent Kyoto Protocol demonstrate the inherent weakness when compliance is effected via voluntary, non-binding international agreements.
