Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peace

The resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten global peace, security and stability'

Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind UN security council resolution casting the climate crisis as a threat to international peace and security - a vote that sank a years-long effort to make global heating more central to decision-making in the UN's most powerful body.

Spearheaded by Ireland and Niger, the proposal called for incorporating information on the security implications of climate change" into the council's strategies for managing conflicts and into peacekeeping operations and political missions, at least sometimes.