A Climate Security Plan for America: A Presidential Plan for Combating the Security Risks of Climate Change
Publisher: Center for Climate and Security
Author(s): John Conger, Francesco Femia, and Caitlin Werrell
Date: 2019
Topics: Climate Change, Governance, Programming
Countries: United States
In the next few years, the U.S. President will be forced to respond to increasing and unprecedented climate-driven security risks to the nation. These are risks that we can already anticipate, given available science, intelligence and predictive capabilities. In this context of unprecedented risk and unprecedented foresight, the President has a responsibility to prepare the nation for the unavoidable impacts of climate change, and a responsibility to prevent future security scenarios that impose catastrophic consequences. Combating these risks will require extraordinary leadership and a response involving a broad range of Federal agencies, including those managing intelligence, defense, diplomacy, development, homeland security, science, technology and energy. This report proposes a Climate Security Plan for America that the President should announce and implement through a newly-created Presidential National Security Directive in order to combat these unprecedented security risks urgently and comprehensively