Alan Leung On Climate Risks To Geopolitics And Security

Climate change is injecting volatility into geopolitics, with worrying implications for international relations and the (already fraying) rules-based order. Physical climate risks also have the potential to catalyze future geopolitical shocks – which could in turn lead to armed conflicts between nations.

Alan Leung works at the global financial institution Macquarie Group as head of the threat intelligence team, and writes the informative newsletter Securing Our Climate, which focuses on the intersection of climate change, security, geopolitics, and finance.

He joins Climate Proofers to discuss the climate impacts he believes could upend global security, highlight the new geopolitical fault lines that could open up as the world warms, and describe the collision of climate change and corporate operational risk management. 

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We talk about:

👉 How climate change intersects with Alan’s role in threat intelligence and security

👉 How climate change can exacerbate and catalyze geopolitical shocks

👉 Why extreme heat and food system stress are key climate-related risks he’s keeping an eye on

👉 How warming could transform the Arctic and turn it into a new arena for great power conflict

👉 How climate is being integrated into corporations’ operational risk management practices

Future guests include Michael Jacobs of IBM.

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Louie Woodall
Editor