The American Security Project cordially invites you to a breakfast discussion:

Climate Security in Africa:

Strategic Implications for the United States 

December 17, 8:30 – 10:00 am

                      Moderated by Andrew Holland Senior Fellow, American Security Project

Climate change presents challenges to political stability and security, to which the United States will have to respond. As ASP’s 2012 Climate Security Report found, “Africa is the continent most likely to suffer the worst effects of climate change due to its reliance on subsistence rain-fed agriculture, rapidly increasing population and the degradation of natural resources.” Dr. Josh Busby, an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, will discuss his research on climate change and political stability in Africa.

This discussion will be on the record.

Join us for a conversation on climate change and its contribution to political instability in Africa.

Joshua Busby is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and a fellow in the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service as well as the Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He originally joined the LBJ School faculty in fall 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Prior to coming to UT, Dr. Busby was a research fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School (2005-2006), the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s JFK School (2004-2005), and the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution (2003-2004).

Busby is the author of several studies on climate change, national security, and energy policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the German Marshall Fund, and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Busby is one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. He has also written on U.S.-China relations on climate change for CNAS and Resources for the Future.

December 17, 8:30 – 10:00 am

The event will take place at:

1100 New York Ave, NW Washington DC

7^th Floor West Tower

Breakfast refreshments will be served between 0800-0830

The discussion will begin promptly at 8:30.  Please arrive by 08:00 for registration.

We hope you can join us.

Please RSVP by December 12th.

ABOUT THE AMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT

The American Security Project is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy and research organization dedicated to fostering knowledge and understanding of a range of national security issues, promoting debate about the appropriate use of American power, and cultivating strategic responses to 21st century challenges. For more information, visit www.americansecurityproject.org.

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