Welcome to “Read, Watch, Listen” from the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), a round-up highlighting some of the articles, interviews, and podcasts featuring the CCS network of experts.  

January and February saw wide-ranging US policy shifts and funding cuts under the new Administration, affecting climate, energy, foreign policy, and defense. See how CCS experts weighed in on these and other issues below. 

Op-Eds and Articles

• Director Erin Sikorsky and Deputy Director Tom Ellison co-author an article about managing the security risks of geoengineering. (Lawfare)
• Ellison discusses the second Trump Administration’s first week of executive orders and their impact on climate security. (Just Security)
• Sikorsky writes on her home state of Wisconsin, discussing the impact of USAID cuts on Wisconsin farmers and national security. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Siena Cicarelli (Fellow and Nexus25 Program Director) writes about the nexus of food and national security while discussing the risks and challenges posed by securitized agri-food systems. (Irish Defense Forces Review)

Press Articles 

• Sikorsky is quoted discussing the benefits of USAID projects fighting climate security risks. (New York Times)
• Sikorsky talks about the impact of climate foreign aid cuts on conflict and extremism. (Devex)
• Ellison and Caroline Baxter (CCS Senior Advisor and Converging Risks Lab Director) explain the warfighting benefits of a climate-resilient and informed military. (WUNC North Carolina Public Radio)
• Sikorsky is quoted on the impacts of the foreign aid freeze on conflict and instability. (Devex)
• John Conger (Director Emeritus) is quoted on the risks of increasingly frequent natural hazards on Florida’s military installations. (Florida Phoenix)
• Ellison discusses the soft power implications of dismantling USAID. (Heatmap News) 
• Sherri Goodman (CSR Board Chair) describes the benefits of USAID. (CNN) 
• Sikorsky is quoted on the national security threats posed by climate risks. (Inside Climate News)
• Goodman and Conger discuss the history of climate security in the Pentagon and react to the first month of Trump’s second term. (The Berkshire Argus)
• Goodman talks about the impacts of climate cuts on the US military. (Scientific American)
• Goodman describes the benefits of US foreign aid. (Axios)
• Sikorsky addresses executive orders, conflict, climate change, and Greenland. (Heatmap News)
• Ellison and CCS are mentioned in an article highlighting CCS-run scenario exercises with university students. (Penn Today)

Video 

• Sikorsky speaks on a panel at the Munich Security Conference co-hosted by CCS, the NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, where they discuss armed forces in a changing climate. (MSC livestream)
• Goodman discusses the strategic importance of Greenland. (PBS News)

Podcasts & Radio Interviews

• Marisol Maddox (CCS Non-Resident Fellow) is interviewed in the aftermath of the Trump administration’s comments on Greenland, on the importance of Greenland as a strategic geopolitical location and as the “thermostat” of a warming world. (WOSU Public Media)
• Peter Schwartzstein (CCS Non-Resident Fellow) is interviewed on the intersection of climate and environmental factors and conflict analysis. (French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs)
• Goodman is interviewed on climate change and Greenland. (Diane Rehm: On My Mind)

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