A Threat to Ecological Security from Inter-Species Viral Distributions Driven...
A scanning electron micrograph shows the Nipah virus (yellow) budding from the surface of a cell. By Dr. Marc Kodack Most of the security analysis on climate change effects has been focused on human...
View ArticleJoin Us for the Launch of the 2022 World Climate and Security Series
By Elsa Barron Join the International Military Council on Climate Security’s Expert Group on June 7, 2022, at 5 PM CET/ 11 AM ET for the launch of the 2022 World Climate and Security Report Series...
View ArticleNew U.S. Navy Climate Strategy Sets High-Level Goals
By Erin Sikorsky On May 24, the U.S. Navy released Climate Action 2030, its response to the Presidential directive to integrate climate considerations into all aspects of the Department of Defense....
View ArticleRELEASE: Decarbonized Defense: Kicking off the World Climate and Security...
June 7, 2022 — Today the Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS Expert Group) launched a new report, Decarbonized Defense: The Need for Clean Military Power...
View ArticleLyston Lea Joins the Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board
By Brigitte Hugh The Center for Climate and Security is pleased and honored to announce that Lyston Lea has joined its distinguished Advisory Board of military and national security leaders. This...
View ArticleBuilding Climate-Secure Communities: The USAID Climate Strategy and FY 2023...
By Elsa Barron On Earth Day 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released a new Climate Strategy for application between 2022 and 2030. The whole-of-agency approach...
View ArticleBRIEFER: Climate Security: An Agenda for Future Research
By Dr. Duncan Depledge, Matt Ince, Olivia Lazard, and Erin Sikorsky Climate change is altering the physical and strategic context in which national and international security is pursued. But it is not...
View ArticleEvent Summary | U.S. Climate Security Investments: Changing Plans Into Action
By Brigitte Hugh “We have got to get busy deploying dollars and energy and ingenuity to tackle the problem,” said Gillian Caldwell, Chief Climate Officer at the U.S. Agency for International...
View ArticleWithin the Health, Climate, and Security Nexus, Prevention is Better than a Cure
By Kelly Bridges During the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, healthcare workers were contracting Ebola at an alarming rate. The World Health Organization (WHO) found that those fighting Ebola at...
View ArticleNew French Climate & Defense Strategy Foreshadows a Wave of Climate Security...
By Elsa Barron This April, the French Ministry for the Armed Forces released its Climate & Defence Strategy. The strategy closely followed the release of the EU’s Strategic Compass in March which...
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