By Brigitte Hugh The Center for Climate and Security is pleased and honored to announce that Dr. Daniel Y. Chiu, Ellen Laipson, Maureen Sullivan and Amali Tower have joined its distinguished Advisory Board of military and national security leaders. This…
By John Conger and Erin Sikorsky On January 5, the Washington Post published an analysis of climate change-related emergencies in 2021 and concluded that more than 40 percent of Americans live in counties that were covered by federal disaster declarations…
Read More States of Emergency: Climate Change Risks to U.S. Military Installations in 2021
By Lillian Parr The latest stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, fueled by the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant, has caused a new wave of disruptions and challenges both domestically and abroad. This includes forcing the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on…
By Dr. Cullen S. HendrixClimate change itself is unlikely to be a cause around which non-state armed actors coalesce and around which their political aims revolve. But climate change will increasingly create recruiting opportunities and expose weaknesses in state institutions…
Read More BRIEFER – Climate Change and Terrorism: Three Risk Pathways to Consider
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), a nonprofit, nonpartisan security policy think tank based in Washington, DC, seeks to hire a full-time Director of Operations. This newly-created role will be key to the day-to-day operations necessary for CSR to achieve…
By Brigitte Hugh On January 13, 2022, join the Center for Climate and Security as we host Jumpstarting Demand for Climate Solutions: The First Movers Coalition and US National Security, a panel discussion featuring representatives from the Department of Defense,…
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?
