Bezpieczeństwo klimatyczne a prawo międzynarodowe
Climate Security and International Law

Summary/Abstract: Climate change results in threats in the form of droughts, floods, extreme weather events, heatwaves and problems with crops and food. It can also cause so-called climatic conflicts related tocompetition for natural resources, population migrations and geographic changes. Along withclimate change, the approach to environmental protection has evolved - from the “natural heritageof humanity” through the “common concern of humanity” to so-called climate security. The linkbetween climate change and security has been emphasized in the United Nations soft law documents. This led to a debate in the Security Council on climate change, which postulated the inclusion of climate issues within the mandate of the Security Council. Thus, the notion of internationalsecurity contained in art. 1, 24 and 39 of the United Nations Charter should be interpreted in thecontext of so-called climate security. This is allowed by the dynamic interpretation of these provisions – from military security to humanitarian security.

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