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Security – sustainable and integrated

Wars, raw material shortages, international law under pressure – the present global situation calls for new security strategies: Under the title 'Security – sustainable and integrated,' the WBGU has prepared a current situation report and presented it today to Parliamentary State Secretary Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter at the Federal Ministry of the Environment.

In the paper, the advisory council argues in favour of a multidimensional security architecture. It should not only link the fight against environmental risks more closely with security policy instruments, but also incorporate other issues. 


Overall, the WBGU has identified five areas of action that it considers crucial in the national and international security context: 
🔹 1.   Protection against climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution to preserve the viability of humanity.
🔹 2.   Social cohesion to promote resilient societies.
🔹 3.   Information integrity to make democracy resilient (wehrhaft).
🔹 4.   Balanced use of technologies and raw materials to reduce dependencies.
🔹 5.   Strategic, rules-based and fair collaboration to support international cooperation.

The WBGU has stimulated the security-policy debate further by developing specific recommendations for action in all five fields, for example on the topic of 'security through climate protection', on designing technological sovereignty, dealing with AI-generated misinformation and socially divisive communication, and on restructuring international cooperation.

Lead authors of the short paper are: Jörg E. Drewes, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Aletta Bonn, Kai Maaz, Karen Pittel, Hans Pörtner, Sabine Dr. Schlacke, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Joscha Wullweber.

Security – sustainable and integrated


Source: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMUKN)

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