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No Mention of Climate Change in the U.S. National Drought Resilience Partnership
Tracking drought — A hydrologic technician from the USGS Idaho Water Science Center measures streamflow in Lightning Creek at Clark Fork, Idaho, during the 2015 drought.
By Marc Kodack
The National Drought Resilience Partnership (NDRP) recently released a report on its priority actions on long-term drought resilience. The NDRP was created in 2016 and consists of multiple federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Energy, Homeland Security, and Commerce. These departments, other federal agencies, and offices “work together to leverage technical and financial federal resources, strengthen communication, and foster collaboration among its members to productively support state, tribal, and local efforts to build, protect, and sustain drought resilience capacity at regional and basin scales.” However, the climate change and drought nexus is not emphasized within NDRP’s mission, and how climate change affects drought resilience is not addressed at all in the report. That’s a striking omission, given the clear connections, and the importance of accounting for climate change when strengthening drought resilience. (more…)
Robert Taylor Joins the Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board
The Center for Climate and Security is pleased and honored to announce that Robert S. Taylor has joined its distinguished Advisory Board of military and national security leaders. Bob is currently the General Counsel of MCE Social Capital, an entity dedicated to providing financing and support to microfinance and other organizations in roughly 40 countries throughout the developing world. In this position, Bob is addressing the challenge of lifting people and regions out of poverty in a sustainable fashion. In addition, Bob is a veteran of the Department of Defense (DoD), where he served as Principal Deputy General Counsel (PDGC) of DoD from 2009 to 2017. He spent nearly two of those years as Acting General Counsel. He also served as the first Deputy General Counsel (Environment and Installations) in DoD, from 1995 to 2002. (more…)
Climate and Security Fellowship Program Risk Briefers 2019
The Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG) is pleased to announce the release of the 2019 Climate and Security Fellowship Program Risks Briefers. This report compiles a series of forward-thinking analysis from the inaugural class of Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG) Fellows. The CSAG Fellows spent a year meeting with top climate and security experts, and considering the security implications of climate change in the context of their work, both inside and outside government, their studies, and the pressing security issues facing the world today. (more…)
Release: 64 U.S. Military, National Security and Intelligence Leaders Release “A Climate Security Plan for America”
Washington, D.C., September 24, 2019 — On Capitol Hill today, the Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG), an extraordinary group of 64 senior military, national security and intelligence leaders chaired by the Center for Climate and Security in partnership with the Elliott School of International Affairs, is releasing “A Climate Security Plan for America.” The Plan calls on the U.S. President to recognize climate change as a vital national security threat, and issue a National Strategy to fulfill a “responsibility to prepare for and prevent” that threat.
The non-partisan group, which includes eight retired 4-star generals and admirals, thirty senior military officers, a former NASA Administrator, and a past Chair of the National Intelligence Council, among many others, offers the Climate Security Plan for America as an ambitious roadmap for fulfilling this “responsibility to prepare and prevent.” That includes preparing for locked-in threats to security from climate change, and preventing major security disruptions in the future by significantly reducing the scale of the problem. The Plan recommends 4 pillars of action: Demonstrate Leadership; Assess Climate Risks; Support Allies and Partners; Prepare for & Prevent Climate Impacts. (more…)