On August 25, 2015, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Josh Busby will serve as a panelist on a webinar discussing the potential global affects climate risks have on the natural and social system. The Peace, Conflict, and the Scale of the Climate Risk Landscape webinar is part of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at Arizona State University.

GSI is a university-wide interdisciplinary hub for global security research that focuses on openness, inclusiveness and connections to the global defense, development and diplomacy communities. The initiative addresses emerging global challenges characterized by complex interdependencies and conflicting objectives, where there may not be obvious solutions.

The opening webinar will examine the security implications of climate risk and will provide a context for the subsequent place-based and sector-based webinars. This session will address climate risk and security on all fronts from the risk assessment perspective (impacts on governance, economic vitality, national, regional and international security) to potential solutions (risk management, policy, and technical).