UK launches first task force to strengthen climate security

Government brings together leading security, military and academic experts to tackle growing climate threats. The new taskforce will strengthen the UK’s climate change preparedness by identifying gaps, assessing risks and providing independent recommendations and expertise on climate and natural threats to national security. Climate change and nature loss are driving instability, economic chaos and threatening the UK’s way of life.

Leading security, military and academic experts have joined forces with the Government to strengthen the UK’s preparedness for the security impacts of climate change and nature loss.

Climate Secretary Katie White today (Friday 26 June) announced the launch of the first specialist taskforce to advise the Government on how to better anticipate and respond to the growing risk that climate change poses to national security.

The UK’s 2025 National Security Strategy makes clear that climate and nature loss are key drivers of global instability, economic disruption and security risks.

Climate change is already having an impact on families and businesses as Britons experience another record-breaking heat wave this week. The UK’s Office for Health Security estimates there were more than 1,500 deaths linked to last summer’s heat wave, and analysis suggests hot, dry conditions could cost UK agriculture £800 million in crop losses in 2025.

The taskforce, co-chaired by Climate Secretary Katie White and Security Secretary Dame Angela Eagle, will meet to pinpoint gaps in the UK’s preparedness and identify the most serious climate and natural threats to national security. It will also review existing resilience work across government and make clear recommendations to strengthen readiness. It builds on ongoing action to tackle the climate crisis and protect future generations. Earlier this month the government set a world-leading target for its seventh carbon budget, which would see emissions cut by 87% between 2038 and 2042. This will help reduce your bills, protect families from soaring fossil fuel prices and promote investment in the UK’s clean energy economy.

Climate Minister Katie White said:

Climate change is no longer a distant problem. This is a security issue that is reshaping the world we all live in.

Recent events in the Middle East make it clear how exposed the systems we all rely on are to shocks that can quickly impact the daily lives of families and businesses.

For the first time, we have convened a task force to prepare as best we can for the security challenges posed by climate change.

Dame Angela Eagle DBE MP, Minister for Security, said:

The climate crisis poses a growing threat to national security, from supply chain disruptions that drive up store prices to causing conflict and instability around the world.

This new taskforce will bring together leading experts to better prepare the UK for these risks, strengthening our domestic resilience and ensuring we can respond to an increasingly uncertain world.

These risks increasingly cross borders and sectors, with knock-on impacts on migration, access to food and water, energy systems, supply chains and financial stability.

The task force will jointly look at climate security. In practice this means:

We look at how climate impacts abroad can translate into domestic pressures, including more people living in climate-vulnerable environments, and how the UK understands the risks to the UK and global economy. This includes what happens when assets, infrastructure or entire regions become too risky to insure or invest in research or increased geopolitical tensions in places like the Arctic where melting ice is causing security concerns.

The initial group of task force members are:

Tim Benton, Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds; Nick Bridge, former Director of Research and Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House, Associate Research Fellow at the Duncan de Pledge Center for Environment and Society at Chatham House, and Senior Lecturer in Geopolitics and Security at Loughborough University Bassam Fattouh, Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Olivia Lazard, Planetary Researcher, Berggruen Institute Richard Nugee, Non-Executive Director, Climate Change and Sustainability, MOD Nathalie Pettorelli, Professor, Institute of Zoology, ZSL Janani Vivekananda, Director, Climate Diplomacy and Security Program, Adelphi Global

Additional members of the task force will be announced in due course.

Janani Vivekananda, Head of Climate Diplomacy and Security Program at Adelphi Global, said:

Security in the 2020s means climate security. I am honored to be joining this task force to ensure that the UK can act early and decisively through integrated, evidence-based and accountable responses that prevent climate and natural risks from becoming crises, protect people and strengthen the conditions for peace.

General Richard Nugee, Non-Executive Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the MOD, said:

I am pleased to join a task force that places climate change and biodiversity loss at the core of our national security. Both have significant implications for the security and well-being of our nation and must be addressed for the benefit of our people.

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