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2025 Annual Threat Assessment First in Over A Decade to Omit Climate Change
Every year, the Director of National Intelligence delivers to Congress an Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) meant to warn of the top national security risks facing the United States. The 2025 ATA, briefed to the Senate on 25 March by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, was the first to omit any mention of climate change in over a decade. Even a textbox on Russia and the Arctic does not mention climate, melting ice, or the changing environment – despite repeated, previous warnings from the US Intelligence Community (IC), across both Democratic and Republican administrations (including the first Trump term), about warming temperatures’ exacerbating risks of instability and geopolitical competition in the region.
(more…)Roots of Resilience: Building Peace in an Era of Food and Climate Shocks
By Siena Cicarelli, Luca Cinciripini, Lukas Eichelter, Philip Novakovic-Wilke, and Lena von Zabern
Resource: US Government Climate Security Analysis, Strategies, and Policies Across Republican and Democratic Administrations
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.
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October 2024 Update: Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker
By Ethan Wong
In October 2024, the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker documented 48 military deployments in response to severe storms, floods, and wildfires in 11 countries, including India, Mexico, the Philippines, Spain, the United States, and elsewhere.
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