1. COLOMBO DEFENCE SEMINAR 2018
‘Climate Change: Future of Warfare’
Syndicate Discussions
Group C

2. COLOMBO DEFENCE SEMINAR 2018
‘Climate Change : Future of Warfare’
Brigadier Jonathan Beesley
Australia
Colonel J Chipili
Zambia
Group C

3. CLIMATE CHANGE INTRODUCTIONS Differences Perspectives
Developed countries
Developing Countries

4. EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Positive Effects
New shipping routes
New agricultural land
Negative Effects
Urbanization of warfare
Scarcity of resources
political instability
Social instability
Economical instability
Mass external migration
New forms of conflicts ( Land, Water etc)

5. CHALLENGES De – urbanization Effects are cross border
Difficult to control
Different levels of commitment from countries
Different perspectives
Different threat models

6. FUTURE WARFARE - What Role of military
Combating climatic change causes
Accessing recourses to enable military operations / capability
Operations to secure, access and protect resources
Reaction to climatic events
HADR – internal and Support to other nations
Control of Population Movement
Mitigating the effect of climate change

7. FUTURE WARFARE – So What
Whole of nation
Increase number of actors in the future operating environment – poachers!
Legal framework to support ‘Climate Intervention Operations’
Multi-national regional frameworks to protect shared resources (eg rivers transiting numerous countries)
Doctrine, concepts, training, equipping
Increase importance of operating in other domains – space and cyber
Access to sensors
S&T – alternate and renewable resources
Autonomous systems