Appearance of climate change as a new challenge in the task system of European Union Civil Protection Mechanism

Abstract

To overcome natural and civilizational threatening effects to mankind, a social defense reflex evolved to ensure the conditions for survival. This is civil protection, which while acting on security risks, threats of the 20th century, and on the degree of vulnerability of human and ecological world crises, transcended the national level and became supranational. With ceasing of the bipolar world, not only with military interpretation of security, an international challenge could have come to the attention of civil protection as global climate change. In this paper, the author attempts to examine the appearance of climate change as a challenge in the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, to present policy attitude, established defense solutions, and strategic responses.