If you haven’t read Thomas Friedman’s op-ed piece today, do. It outlines the sorry state of the American solar industry, focusing on the U.S. company Applied Materials. Of its 14 solar panel factories worldwide, “not a single one is in America… five are in Germany, four are in China, one is in Spain, one is [...]

An article from New Scientist gave me chills this morning:
IF THE sinking Maldives aren’t enough to galvanise action on climate change, could losing a classic beer do it? Climatologist Martin Mozny of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and colleagues say that the quality of Saaz hops – the delicate variety used to make pilsner lager [...]

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On Thursday, September 10th, beginning at 8:15 a.m. EST, the American Security Project (ASP) and George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs will co-host a conference titled “The Day Before: A Conference on the National Security Implications of Climate Change” with key military and public leaders, including Jim Woolsey, former Director of [...]

ASP Board Member Senator John Kerry (D-MA) was recently featured in the Huffington Post in an op-ed addressing the national security implications of climate change.
In the piece, Senator Kerry writes about the urgency of the issue, and the need for Congress to address solutions now:
Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things. Here are a [...]

ASP Board Member and former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel has a fantastic piece in the Post today. In it he lays the case for a new American national security paradigm, based in the realities of the 21st century rather than the habits of the 20th, and calls for a reevaluation of our mission and ambitions [...]

The United States Navy drew attention to its continuing concern over climate change in a recent Stars and Stripes article highlighting security and readiness concerns raised by rapid Arctic ice melt. According to NOAA projections, Arctic summers may be completely ice-free by 2030. That is startlingly soon.
The prospect of iceless, unregulated Arctic waters opening for [...]

As the US lumbers on in debate over renewable energy reform, the PRC is moving forward to become the world’s biggest contender in the solar energy market. Boosted by generous government subsidies, bountiful cheap labor and an ever-increasing demand for green energy, Chinese companies like Suntech are gradually overtaking their American and German competitors.
This may [...]

Our Senior Fellow and member of last week’s International Republican Institute’s election monitoring delegation, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, published a piece today in the Daily Beast on how to move beyond the Afghan elections and execute a new decentralized and dynamic approach to Afghanistan.
She writes:
The outcome of the Afghan elections may very well make the task for the [...]

There is a growing understanding that the impacts of climate change will bring with them serious implications for U.S. national security.  The Senate Foreign Relations and Energy committees have held hearings on this topic.  The intelligence community and the Department of Defense–in the George W. Bush administration–began to examine the topic and factor it into [...]

IBM has released a report warning of huge risks posed to the global utilities sector by climate change. According to the report, “90% of utilities around the world know they are at risk from climate change but fewer than a third said they have performed any financial review of the possible impacts on their business.”
IBM [...]