SKY NEWS

In a Sky News feature examining how extreme weather is disrupting UK agricultural production, Laurie Laybourn, Executive Director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI), provided expert commentary on the national security implications of climate risk. Laybourn highlighted that climate-driven shocks present an immediate threat to domestic stability, emphasizing that UK defense capabilities fundamentally depend on the resilience of core societal systems and food security at home.

Laurie Laybourn, executive director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative, told Sky News: "More than any hostile nation, it has been extreme weather, supercharged by climate change, that has brought some of the biggest impacts on national security in recent years." As Downing Street pledges to boost military spending, Mr Laybourn warned that Britain's ability to defend itself abroad "is utterly dependent on the resilience of its society at home".