Lieutenant General Richard Nuge

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Today in Focus · The security report the UK government doesn’t want you to see · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

And if you understand that and you realize that climate could be, and biodiversity loss could be, a cause of war, then you start to understand what you can do about it.

So it is a cause of potential conflict.

It's also an exacerbator.

It's a threat multiplier.

If you think that resources are scarce, you're going to protect your resources.

And so there's an example, water loss in the Pakistan-India environment, where because there is a lack of water, because it's not raining enough, because the Himalayas are melting in a way that it's not traditional,

Not only have you got problems of agriculture and then flooding, this massive flood that happened in Pakistan a few years back, where half the agricultural land in the country was underwater.

A third of the population was affected by it.

Half the army was deployed just to keep people alive.

And India is suffering as well.

And if they start to blame each other, then you've got real problems.

You've got big powers, India, nuclear power, Pakistan, nuclear power, with tensions being caused by the climate, which, if everything exploded and went wrong, puts you at risk of nuclear war.

I did actually, I mean, I gave a talk to the authors, so I had a sort of bit of a vested interest in seeing the report, and when it didn't come out, I did ask the question, and I was told by various people, just don't ask, and I'm enough of a

of a soldier that if I'm given an order, I tend to obey it.

Not quite enough of a soldier to leave it at that.

But I was disappointed because I wanted to see what they'd written.

This is a seminal report.

I can't tell you how important this report is.

This is the Joint Intelligence Committee writing a report which turns around and says this country is at risk through climate change and biodiversity loss.

They prioritized biodiversity loss, but they also talked about climate change within the report.

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