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Building Climate Security at the State and Local Level
By Tom Ellison and Noah Fritzhand
Introduction: Is All Climate Security Local?
Climate change and security discussions often focus on national and global challenges, but climate security risks are relevant for US states and cities as well. Recently, Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the Los Angeles wildfires have cost lives and livelihoods, strained infrastructure and insurance markets, enabled extremists, and triggered damaging disinformation, underscoring the local and national security impacts of such hazards. Since 2022, the National Guard and other US military forces have deployed on average more than weekly for climate-related hazards in the United States. State and city authorities play key roles in building resilience to these strains, ranging from public safety and emergency services, governance of climate-vulnerable infrastructure, or planning adaptation efforts for wildfires and coastal hazards. These challenges are growing increasingly urgent as the US federal government cuts support for climate and weather data and forecasting and disaster relief, even as climate change intensifies and the United States approaches wildfire and hurricane season.
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Read, Watch, Listen: CCS Across the Web | January-February 2025
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.
(more…)Make or Break Moment for German Climate Security
This weekend, voters solidified a long-anticipated shakeup of the German government following a campaign season that focused largely on immigration and Germany’s sluggish economy. As expected, the vote shifted the balance of power sharply right from the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) coalition to the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). However, while the CDU came out on top with 28 percent of the vote, the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) won an unprecedented (but expected) ~21 percent of the vote. Therefore, the CDU must build a coalition with other mainstream parties to maintain the so-called “firewall” against the far-right.
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MiRCH Update: Military Responses to Climate Disasters Across the United States
By Tom Ellison
Introduction
The Center for Climate and Security’s (CCS) Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker now includes 501 deployments in 97 countries between June 2022 and February 2025–averaging more than one every two days. In light of the military response to January’s devastating wildfires in California and ongoing policy debates about US domestic disaster relief, now is a good time to analyze what MiRCH tells us about military responses to disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding within the United States.
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