<h3 class="post-title subpt">Mary Robinson joins a panel debate on climate change and security at the Munich Security Conference 2017. Speaking alongside senior politicians from Finland, Bangladesh, Sweden and the US, she calls for leadership, including at the UN Security Council.</h3><div class="quoteblock"><div class="quotetext">"Climate displacement is already happening and this is a big security threat. It is time that the Security Council has a formal discussion on climate change and security." –Mary Robinson
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<p>On 18 February, Mary Robinson joined a panel on climate change and security at the <a href="https://www.securityconference.de/en/activities/munich-security-confere…; target="_blank"><strong>Munich Security Conference 2017</strong></a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.008px;" data-mce-mark="1">Entitled<strong> "Climate Security: Good COP, Bad Cops"</strong>, she was joined by </span></p>
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<li><strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">Sauli Niinistö</strong><span style="font-size: 13.008px;"> (President, Republic of Finland),</span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">Sheikh Hasina</strong><span style="font-size: 13.008px;" data-mce-mark="1"> (Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, People's Republic of Bangladesh), </span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">Margot Wallström</strong><span style="font-size: 13.008px;" data-mce-mark="1"> (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden) and </span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">Sheldon Whitehouse</strong><span style="font-size: 13.008px;" data-mce-mark="1"> (Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States of America; Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change and the Bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus).</span></li>
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<p>This discussion was introduced by <strong>Patricia Espinosa Cantellano</strong> (Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and moderated by <strong>Melinda Crane-Röhrs</strong> (Chief Political Correspondent, Deutsche Welle).</p>
<p>Watch the <a href="https://www.securityconference.de/en/media-search/s_video/panel-discuss…; target="_blank"><strong>full discussion and Q&amp;A session</strong></a> on the Munich Security Conference website.</p>