Global climate change has been dominating the top five global risk since 2017 while
climate action failure being the first in rank for global risks in terms of impact in the
year of 2020. Being one of the factors of Non-traditional Security Issues, climate
change that is defined as an inevitable environmental crisis consisting the rising of
climate temperature, the increase of greenhouse effect and global warming, melting of
the glaciers, unusual weather pattern that causes droughts as well as the changes in
rain and snow patterns has now become challenges to the survival of human beings.
These endless unsustainable human activities had steered a new climatic regime of the
world in which the unexpected weather and climate has become more common.
Hence, mitigating the consequences of climate change is critical for reducing the
likelihood of climate-related risks. It is vital for the all nation ahead to adjust to this
new climatic age. ASEAN being one of the parties involved in the treaties and
protocol for the climate change mitigation effort enacted by the United Nations
through United Nations Framework of Climate Change (UNFCCC) has proactively
executed climatic actions through intergovernmental cooperation. However, the
progress of ASEAN at large shows that there are certain factors that limit them to fully
indulged with the climate action initiatives. Thus, this paper argues that although
ASEAN has ratified as one of the parties in United Nations Framework of Climate
Change (UNFCCC), being an organization that is mostly consist of developing
countries does come with limitation for them to execute the mitigating initiatives and
vulnerable towards the effect of climate change.
