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New World Bank Study: Turn Down the Heat
The World Bank has just released a new report which warns of the significant costs of a projected 4 degree Celsius increase in average global temperature. The concluding remarks of the report provide a...
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Update to Climate and Security Resources Page
There have been a number of new reports released recently, and so we though we would highlight an update to our climate and security resources page, where you’ll find government reports and strategic...
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President Obama and Thai Prime Minister Shingluck on Climate Change
President Obama’s historic trip to Asia, which included the first visit to Burma by a sitting U.S. president, is clearly a watershed moment for U.S. foreign policy, human rights and democracy...
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CIA Reorients its Climate Change Analysis
E&E reporter Annie Snider wrote this week on recent changes in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s climate change analysis infrastructure (the story was also picked up by the New York Times)....
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NOAA Seeking Public Input: How to Address the Satellite Gap?
As we highlighted previously, the United States is approaching an unenviable challenge: the possibility of 17 months worth of dramatically diminished weather satellite coverage (to be precise, the loss...
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The Toledo Blade: Military Leaders Take Climate Change Seriously and So...
Ohio’s Toledo Blade published an editorial this past Monday on “Climate and security” which highlights the National Research Council’s recently released report “Climate and Social Stress: Implications...
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An EU Special Representative on Climate Security?
Following a debate last week regarding the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), and its role in addressing “climate-driven natural disasters,” the European Parliament’s foreign affairs...
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Why U.S. Special Forces Like Solar Power
CleanTechnica has posted an interesting article detailing five key reasons why U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan appreciate and use solar power technology. The top-line reasons identified are: 1....
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New U.S. Leadership Frameworks for Climate and Energy Security: A Few...
The Atlantic ran a piece by Neil Bhatiya of the Century Foundation on Friday, which focuses on “why the extreme risk and uncertainty of rapid climate change requires a new national-security framework.”...
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U.S. Drought Worsens
Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman recently reported on the U.S. Drought Monitor’s latest numbers, which reveal that “all categories of drought increased across the country between Nov. 20-27, with the...
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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...
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Join 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...
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New 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....
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RELEASE: 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...
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Lyston 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...
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Building 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...
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BRIEFER: 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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