随着人口的增长和经济的发展，由环境问题诱发的国际冲突新热点中，气候变化问题是21世纪人类社会面临的最严峻的非传统安全挑战之一。它引发的环境安全问题具有长期性、多层次和不可逆等特征，需要国际社会合作应对。环境安全具有跨界性、公共性、全球性（系统性）以及长期性和难以逆转性，需要国际社会的多元主体建立互信，跨境合作共同维护。气候变化的影响直接作用于生态环境，但又远不限于生态环境本身，也对传统安全和资源争夺等提出了重要挑战，甚至对国际安全和全球治理产生深层次冲击。
With population growth and economic development，a number of new international conflicts have been triggered by environmental issues. As one of the severest non-traditional challenges facing human society in the 21st century，climate change has caused long-term，multi-level and irreversible problems endangering environment security，which need transboundary cooperation from international community，especially those joint efforts based on mutual trust. Climate change will bring negative effect on and beyond ecology and environment，and further，posing challenges for traditional security and resource scrambles，which make it necessary for global governance.
