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WATCH: How Might Solar Geoengineering Affect Global Security?
Earlier this week, CCS Director Erin Sikorsky joined SRM360 for a live webinar on the nexus of national security and solar geoengineering. Other speakers included Sofia Kabbej, associate researcher at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), an IMCCS consortium member, and Beth Chalecki, associate professor of International Relations at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
CCS also partnered with SRM360 on a new primer on the topic, which you can read here.
For more on CCS’s work on the security dynamics of climate intervention, click here.
Dispatch from New York City: The Center for Climate and Security at Climate Week and UNGA
Last week, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) team traveled to NY Climate Week and the UN General Assembly to convene government officials, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and scientific experts on a broad range of security-related topics, including climate mobility, food security, renewable energy, solar geoengineering, and climate disinformation. The climate security nexus was featured both at the UN and in Climate Week convenings, with seven countries raising it in the Secretary-General’s High-Level Meeting on Climate, and multiple private sector events explicitly exploring security and resilience.
For a broader overview of key takeaways from the week, including disconnects between clean energy investors and geopolitics, and how the US is stepping back while China is stepping up, you can also check out CCS Director Erin Sikorsky’s latest Substack newsletter, Reflections on Climate Week, Power & Politics.
Below is a quick snapshot of our busy week.
(more…)The Center for Climate and Security at Climate Week NYC
Members of the Center for Climate & Security (CCS) team are in New York this week for Climate Week NYC, one of the largest gatherings of leaders, policymakers, and civil society convening to drive climate action. The team is hosting public events on topics ranging from geoengineering, nationalism and climate backsliding, and the climate security landscape in the Asia-Pacific.
Learn more and register for events below.
Climate Intervention at High Latitudes: A Security Simulation
Tue, Sep 23, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
In this 2030 scenario exercise, co-hosted by CCS and Reflective, participants will explore the geopolitical implications of a potential stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) deployment.
The National Security Salon
Tue, Sep 23, 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM
CCS Advisory Board member Sherri Goodman will give closing keynote remarks at the National Security Salon. The event explores the nexus of climate change, national security, and emerging geopolitical opportunities, and their impact on the climate investment landscape.
Climate Ambition in the Asia-Pacific: Progressive NDC 3.0 for Stronger National Resilience
Tue, Sep 23, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
CCS Director Erin Sikorsky will moderate a panel with speakers from Taiwan Climate Action Network, The Australia Institute, and Solutions for Our Climate (South Korea) on climate policy and security in the Asia-Pacific.
4th Annual Climate & Conflict Convening
Fri, Sep 26, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
CCS Deputy Director Tom Ellison will give opening remarks at the Peace Department’s fourth annual Climate and Conflict Convening in Greenwich, CT. The event explores the implications of rising nationalism and climate policy reversals in the United States and ways forward. Shuttle transport from NYC is available.
A Dose of Realism: Geopolitical and Security Dimensions of Solar Radiation Modification
Earlier this year, a spate of news stories in the United Kingdom featured the so-called “weaponization” of solar geoengineering, conjuring up a future in which Vladimir Putin attacks the country with a targeted stratospheric injection aimed at causing an environmental disaster. Not only is such a scenario currently unlikely from a scientific and technical point of view, it also distracts from a conversation about managing the more realistic security dynamics related to Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), techniques designed to cool the planet artificially by reflecting sunlight back into space. Research, development, and potential future deployment of climate interventions like SRM face a range of security challenges, including conspiracy theories and disinformation, intersections with existing tensions over transboundary resources, and the potential to deepen fissures in the already fractured geopolitical environment.
Recognizing these security risks does not amount to rejecting SRM, just as noting the risks of the energy transition does not justify clinging to fossil fuels. Instead, these security dynamics must be better understood, prepared for, and managed by both security actors and those funding and conducting SRM research.
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