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Watch: CCS Virtual Event on AI’s Implications for Climate Security
Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools have spurred reactions in the climate world ranging from despair over their water and energy use to optimism about their potential contributions to resilience efforts. But what is doomerism, and what is misguided techno-optimism? Do the potential benefits of AI outweigh the costs and unintended consequences? And what do these tradeoffs mean for security? The answers to these questions depend on the type of ‘AI’ being used and how it is being used. Regardless, it is crucial that civil society, researchers, and policymakers guide responsible AI policy and incentive structures in support of a more climate-resilient future.
(more…)Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security
On February 5, 2026, join the Center for Climate and Security online for a webinar exploring how intensifying climate change impacts are continuing to shape global peace and security dynamics as they strain food security, stress social cohesion, shift migration dynamics, and threaten lives. At the same time, the unfettered growth of AI systems is increasingly prominent in discussions about climate change and how this technology will impact global resilience.
This webinar will bring together experts from the security, technology, and climate communities to explore a range of issues, including the security implications of AI’s water and energy demands; the role of AI in advancing early warning and risk anticipation systems; and the potential for AI to both strengthen—or undermine—energy systems and infrastructure resilience in a changing climate. CCS Director Erin Sikorsky will moderate the discussion with panelists Dr. Costas Samaras, Director at the Carnegie Mellon University Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Dr. Kyungmee Kim, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Swedish Defense University.
The panel will be on the record and open to the public, including members of the press.
Event Information
Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security
Thursday, February 5, 2026
9:30am–10:30 am ET
Online-only
Watch: CCS Expert Webinar Explores Extreme Weather and Disinformation
By Tom Ellison
Information manipulation by authoritarian states, extremist movements, and private interests is increasingly contributing to and capitalizing on extreme weather, undermining security and democratic discourse.
That was one key message from a recent webinar from the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), which brought together national security, climate, and information experts for a discussion available to watch here. Deputy Director Tom Ellison gave an overview of CCS’s work on climate security, information manipulation, and democratic governance, with support from the John and James L. Knight Foundation. This work aims to close gaps at the collision of security, climate, and information issues, including analysis of how actors like Russia amplify climate disinformation to weaken democratic rivals, and exercises on how US states and cities can reckon with intensifying climate, security, and information challenges.
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Nexus25 SIPRI Conference Workshop: Leader or Left Behind? The EU in a Euro-Mediterranean Polycrisis
By Siena Cicarelli, Luca Cinciripini, and Chiara Scissa
From May 12-14, the Nexus25 team attended the 2025 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development. This year’s forum focused on “Rethinking Peace and the Future of Security,” with sessions dedicated to resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan, enhancing youth engagement, avenues for dialogue in the Sahel region, advancing gender equity, and more. As part of these discussions, Nexus25 hosted a session entitled “Leader or Left Behind? The EU in a Euro-Mediterranean Polycrisis,” a combined panel discussion and scenario exercise focused on the EU’s response to converging risks in its immediate neighborhood.
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