Security Impacts of Climate Change

The security consequences from climate change include worsening poverty, political instability, and risk of conflict. These are already affecting large portions of the globe.

The regions most at risk from climate change are also those regions with the highest incidents of interstate conflict, radicalism, and terrorism. These regions include South Asia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America. Climate change will further exacerbate regional tensions, increasing the risk of conflict, mass migration, and humanitarian emergencies that will jeopardize U.S. national interests and — if history is a guide — force U.S. intervention. Even if climate change does not result in more numerous American military operations, it will affect the stability and capabilities of numerous friends and allies. Climate change will, in a fundamental sense, be a key element in defining threats to American national security in the future.

Innovating Out of the Climate Crisis: Carbon Emissions

By: American Security Project

As the private sector, federal regulators, and climate activists alike search for more tools to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, active carbon management approaches like carbon capture, utilization, and storage – once seen as too costly, too risky, or both – are gaining renewed attention. All News
What the Transfer of Abrams and Leopard Tanks to Ukraine Means for the War

By: Matthew Wallin

The biggest impact of sending Abrams and Leopard tanks to Ukraine may not be seen in battlefield gains at first, but rather in the decisions on whether these countries send more. All News