How can discourses and organizational culture influence action? 

By comparing how international organizations talk about and define climate change security, the authors have identified patterns in the ways they address risks linked to climate change. For instance,  the EU organizations seem to focus on security risks taking place in Africa and Asia regions, which could indirectly become security challenges for the EU.  In contrast, African and Asian organizations seem to focus on how climate change is affecting societies in their own geographical contexts.

Different institutional settings could influence how organizations respond to climate risks

Authors explore how organizational cultures, structure and power relationships could drive specific actions favouring certain countries at the expense of others. With the UN Climate Security Mechanism as an example, authors suggest that the allocation of resources for climate security can be strengthened by having an “institutional home” dedicated to climate security within international organizations.

 “My co-authors, Malin Mobjörk and Florian Krampe, and I draw on research that we and others have done on how international and regional organizations address climate-related security risks. This research field is rapidly expanding but there is still a limited understanding of how discourse and action on climate security develop and diffuse in and across different institutional settings in various policy fields and geographical contexts. In this article, we outline an analytical framework that we hope will contribute to comparative research on international and regional organizations,” said Niklas Bremberg.