Climate Emergency and Defence Seminar, a partnership between LABMUNDO, OIMC and PPGCM/ECEME
At the end of 2025, on 25 November, the World Political Analysis Laboratory organised the Climate Emergency and Defence International Seminar: COP 30 and its impacts on the Armed Forces, in partnership with the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change (OIMC) and the Graduate Programme in Military Sciences of the Army Command and General Staff College (PPGCM/ECEME) . Held at the headquarters of the Army Command and General Staff College (ECEME), the event brought together experts from various fields of study to discuss how Brazil’s defence policy can be formulated and implemented to address growing environmental challenges, particularly in light of the securitisation of the international climate change regime.
Organised by Prof. Rubens de S. Duarte, LABMUNDO coordinator, the seminar featured a keynote lecture delivered by internationalist Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham), moderated by our coordinator Prof. Pablo Saturnino Braga. The five lectures in the event programme were recorded and can be viewed online in full on the OIMC YouTube channel. The Climate Emergency & Defence Seminar was made possible thanks to the support of the Rio de Janeiro State Research Support Foundation (Faperj).
On the day before the event at ECEME, the Laboratory’s Rio de Janeiro branch had the opportunity to welcome Prof. Floyd at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ) to deliver her lecture Right and wrong securitisation: Why ethics matters in security policy and how (not) to securitise, during our 2025 closing plenary session.