Let’s not forget that the military and security sectors are often the first responders to environmental crises. As they struggle to manage multiple and parallel issues, the burden could limit their ability to meet any one challenge. Keep Reading
Understanding and dealing with climate change is important to national security and, therefore, to the Defense Department, the senior climate advisor to the defense secretary has said. Keep Reading
Jupiter's platform leverages climate science and economic impacts to address a broad range of use cases, climate scenarios, and other factors to provide actionable intelligence for individual physical assets at the portfolio level. Keep Reading
This information will help the Coast Guard effectively achieve its missions in a manner that advances the Administration’s urgent priorities of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. Keep Reading
In 2020 alone, the United States faced 22 severe weather and climate disasters costing $95 billion in damages to homes, businesses and infrastructure and wide-ranging economic and social disruption. Keep Reading
Topics covered during the week of discussions included food/water distribution, patient movement, route clearance, debris removal, temporary power and power restoration, emergency responder communications as well as public information and warning. Keep Reading
The grant covers the relocation and replacement of 37 transmission poles and three distribution pole structures over a two-mile area in the Sea Oats area, on Lower Matecumbe Key in the Village of Islamorada. Keep Reading
The Center for Climate and Security is partnering with the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs and Prime Movers Lab on the Jackson Hole Global Forum 2021: Climate Change and National Security. Keep Reading
"We cannot be shy about asking the equity question," administrator tells hurricane conference. "It is a fact that disasters exacerbate pre-existing inequities that already existed before these events occur." Keep Reading
FEMA is providing mitigation assistance to homeowners to help them rebuild their homes stronger following disaster damage, as part of the agency’s commitment to make communities stronger and increase resilience from the impacts of climate change. Keep Reading
The Guidehouse and Public Utilities Fortnightly report analyzes today’s utility industry and the major changes expected in the next 10-15 years. Keep Reading
Perhaps more than any executive branch budget submission in history, the first budget released by the Biden administration takes the gravity of transnational, systemic security risks seriously and begins significant investments in addressing them. Keep Reading
Sometimes you want to hear from the very top, and sometimes you want to get into the details. In the last couple of weeks, the U.S. Congress has done both, and each one teaches us something important about the way the Department of Defense (DoD) is planning to deal with climate change early in this Administration. Keep Reading
At a recent Leaders Summit on Climate, U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin led a session focused on identifying climate security risks and reiterating existing promises for combating them. Keep Reading
The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) says climate change will threaten peace, and that the consequences of global warming and other environmental impacts are many and varied, including mass migration and economic destruction. Keep Reading
Perhaps President Biden’s clearest message on climate to date, and one that is of particular interest to the security community, is his executive order, signed on his seventh day of office, that made climate change a national security priority. Keep Reading
Climate change — already a well-known threat to our weather patterns, infrastructure, electric grids, health and safety — also presents a profound and growing threat to our financial system. Keep Reading
In the U.S. and around the world, every type of power system within every regulatory structure has faced catastrophic power failures due to increasingly severe weather. Keep Reading
On March 26, the Readiness Subcommittee of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on resilience, which in recent years has become synonymous with climate change adaptation. Keep Reading
A new report from the Government Accountability Office says the Department of Defense is not measuring whether its climate resilience grant programs are achieving their intended objectives. Keep Reading