This event is organised by Trianon Scientific Communication aand hosted at The Nine.
Environmental degradation, resource scarcity, and social inequality are direct security threats, not peripheral issues. Yet most defense frameworks still treat them separately.
This panel integrates what should have been connected decades ago.
Why now ?
- The race for critical minerals (lithium, cobalt, rare earths) is creating new geopolitical dependencies
- Climate change is redrawing borders, creating refugee crises, and destabilizing states
- Control over green technology and resources is becoming as strategic as 20th-century oil dominance
- Current security doctrine ignores these multiplying threats
Key discussion areas:
1.Resource Geopolitics - How renewable energy supply chains, Arctic melt, and
water basins reshape strategic competition
2.Energy Power Shifts - The green transition is restructuring global power;
petrostates decline while green-tech nations rise
3.Climate Disruption - Maritime boundaries, climate refugees, state failure
(happening now, not theoretical)
4.Social Stability - How inequality and fragmentation create conditions for
extremism and external exploitation
5.Economic Resilience - Supply chain vulnerabilities, economic dependency,
and strategic autonomy
6.Breaking Silos - Practical integration of sustainability into defense planning
and vice versa
Nations failing to integrate sustainability into security doctrine will be strategically disadvantaged. Those controlling clean energy, critical minerals, and sustainable
systems are the emerging power brokers.
About our speakers
- Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsil (Moderator): CSR strategist, Climate change advisor for Brussels-Capital Region, and CEO & co- founder of Trianon Scientific Communication
- Hélène de Rengervé: Senior EU Corporate Accountability Advocate at Human Rights Watch, where she led the organisation’s advocacy on the EU Forced Labour Regulation
- Serge Stroobant: Director for Europe and MENA at the Institute for Economics and Peace, bringing 25 years of military experience and expertise in global risk analysis.
