Ecological Security Program Report September 2023
ECOLOGICAL RISK IN A FUTURE SOUTHEAST ASIA
AN ECOLOGICAL SECURITY POLICY GAME
From resource scarcity to increased authoritarianism, a new policy game highlights how loss of ecosystem functions and services can combine with the effects of climate change to produce dire security threats.
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The loss of ecological function and services, the acceleration of ecological harms, and environmental crime will contribute to risks of future pandemics, geopolitical clashes, political instability, loss of social cohesion, economic fragility, food insecurity, resource scarcity, and more.
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CCS Welcomes 2023-2024 Class of the Climate and Security Fellowship
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 class of the Climate and Security Fellowship. The 2023-2024 class of 12 fellows comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and during their term, they will have opportunities to engage with expert speakers, discuss a syllabus of…
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August 2023 Update: Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker
In August 2023, the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker identified 19 countries in which militaries were deployed in response to climate hazards, often multiple times to different regions and types of hazard. The tracker identified 35 incidents total.
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The Cyber-Biosecurity Nexus: Key Risks and Recommendations for the United States
Cyber-biosecurity threats are escalating as malicious actors target critical infrastructure, biotech firms, and research institutions. This briefer provides an overview of the trends and critical risks at the nexus of cybersecurity and biosecurity. It then offers high-level recommendations for addressing these risks.
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New Analysis of Climate Security Risks in Iran and Türkiye
As extreme weather this summer shows, no place is immune from climate change’s impact on the interconnected natural and human systems that underpin stability and security.
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Ecological Risk in a Future Southeast Asia: An Ecological Security Policy Game
The results of this exercise show that loss of ecosystem functions and services—and the acceleration of climate change—may contribute to resource scarcity, food insecurity, economic fragility, community displacement, societal unrest, political instability, civil conflict and increased authoritarianism.
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CCS Input on the First National Nature Assessment
CCS broadly supports the themes and framework proposed in the draft prospectus. The themes and cross cutting areas woven throughout them all intersect with the national security of the United States and, in particular, climate and ecological security.