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Watch: CCS Virtual Event on AI’s Implications for Climate Security
Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools have spurred reactions in the climate world ranging from despair over their water and energy use to optimism about their potential contributions to resilience efforts. But what is doomerism, and what is misguided techno-optimism? Do the potential benefits of AI outweigh the costs and unintended consequences? And what do these tradeoffs mean for security? The answers to these questions depend on the type of ‘AI’ being used and how it is being used. Regardless, it is crucial that civil society, researchers, and policymakers guide responsible AI policy and incentive structures in support of a more climate-resilient future.
(more…)Climate Intervention at High Latitudes: A 2030 Security Scenario
By Erin Sikorsky, Julia Greensfelder, and Hannah Lyons
Storymap by Tom Ellison
Overview
The effects of climate change are already posing significant security challenges worldwide. Extreme weather regularly destroys lives, livelihoods, and critical infrastructure; warming temperatures affect food and water security, amplifying fragility and cross-border tensions. Governments are increasingly attuned to the risks of instability, tensions, or even conflict in climate-changed geographies, including in the Arctic. Against this backdrop, scientists also warn that key climate tipping points, or systems-level irreversible changes, are fast-approaching, including the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, the reversal of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and faster-than-expected permafrost thaw.
MiRCH Roundup November 2025 – January 2026: Militaries Scramble Across South and South-East Asia to Respond to Back-to-Back Disasters
From November 2025 through January 2026, the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker documented 41 military deployments in 15 countries to address climate hazards. As 2025 wound down, countries in South and Southeast Asia were slammed by typhoons and devastating flooding. Notably, multiple militaries also deployed to assist Sri Lanka in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, which Sri Lankan leaders have called the “largest and most challenging natural disaster” in their history.
(more…)Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security
On February 5, 2026, join the Center for Climate and Security online for a webinar exploring how intensifying climate change impacts are continuing to shape global peace and security dynamics as they strain food security, stress social cohesion, shift migration dynamics, and threaten lives. At the same time, the unfettered growth of AI systems is increasingly prominent in discussions about climate change and how this technology will impact global resilience.
This webinar will bring together experts from the security, technology, and climate communities to explore a range of issues, including the security implications of AI’s water and energy demands; the role of AI in advancing early warning and risk anticipation systems; and the potential for AI to both strengthen—or undermine—energy systems and infrastructure resilience in a changing climate. CCS Director Erin Sikorsky will moderate the discussion with panelists Dr. Costas Samaras, Director at the Carnegie Mellon University Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Dr. Kyungmee Kim, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Swedish Defense University.
The panel will be on the record and open to the public, including members of the press.
Event Information
Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security
Thursday, February 5, 2026
9:30am–10:30 am ET
Online-only
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