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USAID Provides Critical Benefits to US National Security
The Trump Administration’s effort to try to shut down USAID and pause all foreign aid directly harms US national security, including by interrupting critical investments into resilience, adaptation, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding. In 2021, 79 senior national security leaders, including 8 retired 4-star generals and admirals, a former Director of National Intelligence, and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, signed the Challenge Accepted report, which argued that USAID investments in resilience and adaptation were critical to preventing instability and conflict and maintaining the US competitive edge with China.
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China’s Massive Hydropower Project in Tibet Illustrates Climate Security Risks
Late last year, the Chinese government announced its approval of a massive dam project along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. The dam is estimated to eventually generate more than three times the kilowatt hours as the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest hydroelectric power center. Beijing has not released any information regarding the technology to be utilized, the construction timeline, or other infrastructure details for the Medog Hydropower Station. The region is prone to earthquakes and vulnerable to diminishing glacial melt due to rising temperatures. At the same time, the dam would significantly alter river flow for downstream nations, India and Bangladesh, impacting fresh water supplies, ecosystem dynamics, and more.
(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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