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The impact of climate change on the security and well-being of citizens is increasingly recognized as a threat multiplier, with consequences that can have a local, regional and global impact. A major consequence of this new security paradigm is the so-called Climate Security, which refers to how climate change related events amplify existing risks in society, endangering the safety of citizens, key infrastructures, economies or ecosystems. Earth Observation (EO) has long been regarded as a critical resource for understanding Climate Security scenarios. Together with technologies such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the emergence of the Digital Twins concept, these technologies are providing a key framework for a holistic advanced analysis. The present work aims to present the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) approach to better understand Climate Security issues, displaying its different activities in Research and Innovation (R&I) as well as an example of an operational use case, where the construction of a water canal in the Amu Darya river basin could have significant consequences on the access to water for the whole region, leading to possible security concerns.
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Ussorio et al. (2024) studied this question.