Climate Change: Kaine Aims to Help Defend Hampton Roads Military Readiness with Climate Security Act

Mar 14, 2019 | Tamara Dietrich, Daily Press
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The Climate Security Act of 2019 would establish a “climate security envoy” within the State Department, outline how climate change data and forecasting should inform security planning, and re-establish the Special Envoy for the Arctic, a region of rapid ice melt rapidly turning into an international security challenge. Virginia senator and co-sponsor Tim Kaine said the measure offers the new Congress the chance to “make combating climate change a core foreign policy priority.”