CSAC NewsletterFall 2025

NEWS

On November 7, Will Greaves and Aly Tkachenko hosted the ‘Climate (In)Security in the Pacific’ Conference and Book Workshop at the University of Victoria. The event brought together scholars from across Canada, the United States, and Australia who are collaborating on an edited volume based on conversations begun at the CSAC Pacific Climate Security Conference in February 2024. The conference also brought together graduate students from across Canada for a panel showcasing the work of emerging scholars in the field of climate security.

Infolettre ACSCOctobre 2024

CSAC President Bruno Charbonneau was recently nominated as the Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE) representative to the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s Systems Analysis and Studies (SAS) Panel. He attended the 56th SAS Panel Business Meeting in Berlin, Germany, on November 5-7.

Bruno Charbonneau presented a paper called ‘Foresight: planning for low-carbon warfare’, co-authored with Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University), at the NATO Operational Research and Analysis conference in Berlin, Germany, on November 3-4.

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As part of the CSAC initiatives, Dr Florian Krampe was invited to Bishop’s University by Dr Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, member of CSAC’s governing council, to deliver a talk titled ‘Foregone Conclusion: Climate, Conflict and the Power of Choice’ on October 27. His talk explored how climate-related challenges, often seen as drivers of instability, can also become catalysts for cooperation and peacebuilding, underscoring the agency of political and societal actors in shaping the security outcomes of the climate crisis. The discussion sparked a lively exchange on the paradoxes and possibilities of climate security in today’s world.

On October 8, CSAC members took part in the 4th Montreal Climate Security Summit, co-hosted by the NATO CCASCOE and the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute. Tom Deligiannis (CSAC Vice-President) moderated a panel on civil-military cooperation on climate resilience, which included contributions from Dan Doran (Sustainable Markets Initiative), Jessica Yllemo (Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change), Eva Cohen (Civil Protection Youth Canada), and Lloyd Chubbs (Canada Joint Operations Command) and touched on many of the key challenges and opportunities to build resilience and cooperation to face climate risks. Bruno Charbonneau co-facilitated, with Duncan Depledge, a workshop titled ‘Increased Readiness and Resilience through Low-Carbon Warfare’.

A CSAC reunion at the Montreal Climate Security Summit, with Bruno Charbonneau, Tom Deligiannis, and former CSAC Fellows Burgess Langshaw Power and Jonas Goldman!

Bruno Charbonneau contributed two lectures to the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) Climate Change and Security course in La Spezia, Italy, from September 29 to October 3. The course was co-developed and co-delivered with the support of the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s, NATO Office of the Chief Scientist (STO-OCS), in close collaboration with NATO International Staff, the International Military Staff – Policy and Capabilities Division, and the NATO CCASCOE.

This past June, Bruno Charbonneau took part in a recorded interview with the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, discussing the effects of climate change on conflicts, stability, and food security in West Africa and beyond.

The interview recording is available here.

PUBLICATIONS

Tkachenko, A. (2025) Ecological security, Indigenous Marine Guardian Programs, and expanding the concept of ‘climate security’. Policy Brief 36, Network for Strategic Analysis.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gabrielle Daoust (CSAC board member, University of Northern British Columbia) and Ayesha Siddiqi (University of Cambridge) are convening a panel titled ‘Can we talk? Political ecology of climate and conflict dialoguing with mainstream security studies’ during the 2026 Political Ecology Network Conference, taking place June 29 to July 3 in Barcelona. The panel description and the proposal submission portal are available here. The call for proposals is open until 23:59 CET on December 5, 2025.

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