Montreal Climate Security Summit 2024

Event Date(s): 29 and 30 October 2024

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Language(s): French / English

Organiser(s): NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence (CCASCOE) and the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute and more than 14 co-organisers

Event Webpage: https://ccascoe.org/mcss-2024/

Description: The Montreal Climate Security Summit is an annual international meeting at the intersection of climate change and security, which brings together participants from across the NATO Alliance and beyond. More than 900 guests included high-level civilian and military practitioners, policy makers, decision makers, and seasoned researchers hailing from NATO member countries, multilateral and regional organizations, industry, think tanks, and civil society.

See event page for more information and programme

Key Themes: 

• Current and future climate security threats and the role of NATO
• Resilience of military infrastructure
• Risk-mitigation strategies
• Greening defense and military readiness
• Regional and Indigenous outlooks
• Arctic security
• Strategic foresight
• Human security
• Data-sharing