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Event: The Iran War: Implications for Food, Water, and Energy Security
The ongoing US and Israeli conflict with Iran has expanded across the Middle East, and is already upending economic markets and regional security. On March 10, 2026, the Center for Climate & Security will host a webinar and audience Q&A on the food, water, & energy implications of the US-Israeli conflict with Iran.
Event Information
The Iran War: Implications for Food, Water, and Energy Security
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
12:00 to 1:00 pm ET
Zoom webinar; Registration requested
Event Summary: Food on the Frontlines? Evaluating the Future of Defense in an Unstable Climate (Munich Security Conference 2026)
Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez, talking about climate change at the MSC. (Lukas Barth-Tuttas/MSC)
In one of the opening panels of the 2026 Munich Security Conference (MSC), Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez, remarked: “…things that happen in one part of the world can affect the entire world. The threat of climate change is real and we are here, of course, to solve that problem together.”
Referring to the ongoing torrential rains that have devastated Colombia by displacing thousands of families, destroying key infrastructure, disrupting access to food, and decimating crucial crop yields, Minister Suárez’s comments hold true across the world as these threats do not stop at one country’s borders. While many defense leaders recognize the reality of climate threats, the interconnections between climate change, food and agriculture, and national security remain insufficiently incorporated into many countries’ security planning.
At the 2026 MSC, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) convened defense, climate, and agri-food leaders for an official MSC Side Event as part of CCS’ Feeding Resilience Program to discuss this nexus in the NATO context.
(more…)WATCH: How Might Solar Geoengineering Affect Global Security?
Earlier this week, CCS Director Erin Sikorsky joined SRM360 for a live webinar on the nexus of national security and solar geoengineering. Other speakers included Sofia Kabbej, associate researcher at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), an IMCCS consortium member, and Beth Chalecki, associate professor of International Relations at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
CCS also partnered with SRM360 on a new primer on the topic, which you can read here.
For more on CCS’s work on the security dynamics of climate intervention, click here.
CSR Takes Main Stage at the 2026 Munich Security Conference
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), including its Center for Climate and Security (CCS), had several team members take the Main Stage at the Munich Security Conference last weekend. From the compounding effects of climate change to the new frontier of competition in outer space to the challenge of managing nuclear proliferation, CSR experts offered key observations and analysis as the world convenes to solve our most pressing security challenges.
A Peacekeeper’s Guide to the Galaxy? Relaunching Space Governance
CSR Chief Executive Officer Mallory Stewart joined government ministers from France and Germany, as well as private-sector leaders, to discuss the future of space security and the implications of emerging technologies for 21st-century space governance.
Mushrooming: Tackling Growing Nuclear-Proliferation Risks
CSR Board Member Rose Gottemoeller talked about the future of nuclear risk with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a leading member of the French National Assembly, and academic experts.
Degrees of Instability: Climate Security in a Warming World
CCS Director Erin Sikorsky moderated a Climate Security Town Hall among German, Indian, and US senior policymakers on how a changing climate and environmental conditions are reshaping and exacerbating global patterns of vulnerability and instability.