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At least until 2050, climate change will remain a persistent but manageable threat. But by 2100, climate-related national security threats could be existential.
In the middle of the last century, Dr. Murdock Head, a George Washington University professor, acquired an old manor house and farm known as Airlie outside the nation’s capital. Dr. Head wanted to create a place where experts and organizations could meet in a neutral environment to analyze the pressing issues of the day.
A new film on climate change and national security emphasizes the danger of ignoring this crucial issue.
Notes from inside the 53rd Munich Security Conference.
President Trump’s refugee policy is linked to another set of his controversial views: those on climate change.
Climate change as national and global security problem emerges as one of the single loudest themes in the Obama administration’s reflections on its eight-year legacy and the challenges that remain.
The Trump administration has an opportunity for the ages: building U.S. resilience in the face of the grave and myriad security challenges presented by climate change.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed that when he is inaugurated he will kill the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and pull out of the Paris Agreement—two pillars of the Obama administration's efforts to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A primer on whether he can do as he promises.
The Paris Agreement on climate change, concluded last December and signed on Earth Day, April 22 this year, has become the latest episode in the long-running tug of war between President Obama and the present Congress over executive power.
Former State Department Deputy Legal Adviser Sue Biniaz, who has served as the Department's top environmental lawyer for more than twenty-five years and is now teaching at Columbia Law School, has written a fascinating new paper entitled "Comma But Differentiated Responsibilities: Punctuation and 30 Other Ways Negotiators Have Resolved Differences in the International Climate Change Regime," in which she describes some practical devices