How climate change will transform the global balance of power

Considerations of national security may become a key driver of global moves to alternative energy. For the likes of India and Russia, the shift from oil and gas will be as consequential as changes in weather patterns, argues Anatol Lieven. Writing in the Financial Time, he explains why climate change itself and the attempts to mitigate it will change the balance of political and geopolitical power both within states and between them.