2026
PRIORITY POLICY QUESTIONS: SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS
Environment and National Security: Exploring the Risk Pathways
Agile Initiative/ Oxford Martin School
This document is one of a series of reports from the Agile Initiative’s Environment and National Security: Exploring the Risk Pathways project. The Priority Policy Questions: Summary of Key Findings reports respond to questions emerging from discussions with policymakers. Designed to be concise and accessible, each provides a list of key !ndings, a synthesis of available scienti!c evidence, a graphic illustrating the pathways between environmental pressures and national security, an explanation of the implications for UK national security, a list of priority policy recommendations, and description of relevant uncertainties and evidence gaps.
The Priority Policy Questions Series
- The role of critical natural infrastructure in supporting national security
- Managing demand: energy security, food security and UK national security
- Climate risks and opportunities for maritime shipping and UK trade
- Environment-driven mobilities and UK national security
- Weaponisation of nature
- Environment and social resilience
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