Over the past few decades, a bipartisan acknowledgment of the climate threat has emerged within the United States, driving successive administrations to develop strategies and policies related to climate security. Since 2011, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) has collected and saved these documents and hosted them on its website for use and reference. These have been organized into CCS’s Resource Hub. Our latest update includes US government documents from the past four years, though our comprehensive list includes resources going back to 1990.
These are organized across five categories. The first includes overarching policy guidance, such as executive orders and National Climate Assessments. The second category, which compiles the strategies and plans of specific agencies, highlights how DoD, the military departments, the Department of Homeland Security, and others organized and executed their approach toward tackling the climate challenge. The third category includes those strategies and plans that cut across government departments, such as the US Global Water Strategy and the National Security Strategy. Fourth, major pieces of legislation, such as the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, are included. Fifth and finally are research outputs from the National Academy of Sciences.
A more comprehensive list, including resources and policy guidance from earlier Administrations, and resources from other governments and international institutions, can be accessed on the CCS website via this link.
For a list of other similar sites tracking climate and environmental policies, please see this link from Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, as well as their own tracker that can be found here. In addition, Urban Ocean Lab’s resource hub can be found here, and the Public Environmental Data Project’s resources are here.