# Climate crisis threatens national security for all, Ed Miliband tells Cop31

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/climate-crisis-threatens-national-security-for-all-ed-miliband-tells-cop31/
- Published: 2026-11-11T16:29:52+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T21:09:48+00:00
- Original publisher: The Independent (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/ed-miliband-cop31-climate-energy-prices-b3083216.html
- Topics: Climate, Politics, Science

## Key points

- Miliband says climate change is a national security threat.
- He says overshooting the 1.5°C limit is inevitable.
- He calls for clean energy investment and stronger resilience.

## Summary

Ed Miliband will tell world leaders at the Cop31 climate summit that climate change threatens the national security of every country. He argues that rising temperatures can worsen food shortages, damage infrastructure, disrupt economies and drive migration and conflict, making security and defence a new focus for climate action.

Miliband says the world must face the consequences of three decades of insufficient emissions cuts and that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit is now inevitable. He links fossil fuel price shocks to conflicts and disruption at key shipping routes, and calls for more clean energy, methane cuts, forest protection and resilience to extreme weather. The UK pledged £331 million to the Global Environment Facility in September; the summit’s leaders’ segment runs for two days in Antalya.

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