By John Conger Last week, President Biden signed the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), that Congress passed with overwhelmingly bipartisan support. The bill included numerous climate security measures that echo a number of key recommendations in the…
Read More Mainstreaming Climate Security: The FY22 National Defense Authorization Act
By Joon Hwang 2021 was a momentous year for climate security. From President Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, to NATO’s Climate and Security Plan of Action, to stacks of climate security reports from…
Read More Year in Review: The Top Climate & Security Stories of 2021
December 20, 2021, Washington, DC - In a time of daily confusion in the public discourse on the current pandemic, the Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons, an institute of the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), is releasing A…
Read More RELEASE: Top Experts Release Handbook for Ending Catastrophic Biological Risks
By Mark Nevitt Earlier this week, the UN Security Council failed to pass a draft resolution that would have defined climate change as a “threat to peace” within Article 39 of the UN Charter. Under international law, this critical threat…
Read More Is it Time to “Climatize” the UN Security Council?
By Brigitte Hugh “We’re really on a good path to mainstreaming climate and security...and that’s a major accomplishment,” said Sherri Goodman, Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), during a recent CCS event. The event was about…
Read More Looking to 2022: Next Steps for US Climate Security Policy
By Holly Kaufman, Sherri Goodman and John Conger At a United Nations Security Council meeting in September 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted, “Look at almost every place where you see threats to international peace and security today…
By Brigitte Hugh In October, the Biden Administration released several climate security reports in accordance with the Executive Orders on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration. We are…
December 2, 2021— The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is excited to announce that Hon. Rose Gottemoeller and Hon. Daniel Poneman have joined CSR’s Board of Directors. Both bring extensive leadership and a positive vision for international security to the…
President Biden at the Leaders Summit on Climate - 22 April 2021 By Joon Hwang “Climate change is an increasingly destabilizing force—an accelerating destabilization force—and it’s impacting our operational environment, it’s creating new missions, and our allies and partners are…
Read More The Biden Administration’s Whole of Government Approach to Climate Security
By Lillian Parr On Monday, November 15, the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) hosted a webinar to discuss innovative technologies for addressing biological risks and how the U.S. government can most effectively invest in them. These technologies span a broad…
