The US Needs Partners to Tackle the Security Risks of Climate Change

Mar 4, 2021 | Joshua Busby, Morgan Bazilian, and Florian Krampe
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We live in an age of “actorless threats” – where challenges to peace and security come not only from agents intentionally trying to do us harm, but also from climate change and pandemics whose impacts are no less severe. Climate change poses escalating risks to stability and security, with potentially far-reaching consequences, from the risks to fragile states from more volatile weather to the combined effects of rising sea levels and storm surge on the survival of island nations and coastal populations.