Climate and Security Resources: White House and Interagency

This page includes a list of resources on the nexus of climate change and security by the White House and Interagency.

White House and Interagency

2021: Report on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration, The White House, October 2021

2021: Fact Sheet: Prioritizing Climate in Foreign Policy and National Security, The White House, October 21, 2021

2021: Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk, Sec.5 (e), The White House, May 20, 2021, The Federal Register notice is here  where this is now EO 14030

2021: Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, The White House

2021: Executive Order on Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration, The White House

2021: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, The White House

2019: Water resources on Guam—Potential impacts of and adaptive response to climate change, US Geological Survey, US Department of the Interior

2019: Memorandum: Deputies Committee Meeting on the Presidential Committee on Climate Security Executive Order, The White House

2018: Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol 2, U.S. Global Change Research Program

2017: National Security Strategy

2016: Presidential Memorandum — Climate Change and National Security

2015: National Security Strategy

2015: Finding from Select Federal Reports: The National Security Implications of a Changing Climate

2014: Executive Order “Climate-Resilient International Development”

2014: National Climate Assessment, U.S. Global Change Research Program

2013: Executive Order 13653 “Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change”

2013: The President’s Climate Action Plan

2013: National Strategy for the Arctic Region

2013: Letter to the President on addressing climate change, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

2011: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force

2011: Federal Agency Climate Change Adaptation Planning Support Document

2010: National Security Strategy

2010: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force

2009: Executive Order 13514: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance

2009: National Security Presidential Directive NSPD — 66; Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD — 25, Arctic Region Policy

2005: National Security Policy Directive 44

2002: National Security Strategy

1989: National Security Council Meeting on Global Climate Change