Between 2007 and 2020, France has been one of the driving forces behind the debates on climate security within the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). This support increased under the Hollande and Macron presidencies as climate diplomacy became an important component of the country’s foreign policy after the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. France’s current approach to climate security is the result of the development of different policy narratives in the discourses and practices of policymakers, which tend to adopt a risk-based approach to climate change, both nationally and internationally. Recent debates on climate security in France show a growing concern for the anticipation and the prevention of the potential crises that climate change can trigger, and their implications for different policy areas. In the menacing context of the Anthropocene, and thanks to a discursive analysis of primary sources, I will show that the social and political construction of risks could lead to a more securitised approach to climate policies in France.