Sharon Burke on How the U.S. Military is Planning for Climate Change [Audio]
Publisher: New Security Beat
Author(s): Sean Peoples
Date: 2016
Topics: Climate Change, Cooperation, Humanitarian Assistance
Countries: United States
Climate change is impacting the U.S. military in two major ways, explains Sharon Burke in this week’s podcast. Burke, who served as the First Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy from 2010 to 2014 and is now with the New America Foundation, says the Department of Defense has done a lot to consider how changing climate conditions will affect their equipment and facilities, but also their missions.