Climate Change and Security
Key Takeaways From the Glasgow Climate Pact
Here are some of the key takeaways and surprises from the Glasgow Climate Pact.
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Here are some of the key takeaways and surprises from the Glasgow Climate Pact.
The reports offer a clear-eyed analysis of the climate threats facing the nation and world.
The Biden administration released a series of new reports detailing the expected effects of climate change and its threats on global security.
Climate change is often thought of as an issue that can only be solved through an unprecedented amount of international cooperation. But geopolitical competition could be another path to a more sustainable future.
The use of climate risk analytics is needed to fulfill President Biden’s focus on climate and help protect the U.S. from a major threat multiplier.
What happened in Texas should be a warning of what Americans will face from the next generation of the internet and the new realm of cybersecurity risk it will dramatically amplify.
The problems in Texas this week were not the state’s current mix of energy resources, but that fact the state’s energy resources were not prepared to perform in the low temperatures seen. Americans must be willing to plan and invest to better confront such crises in the future.
On Jan. 20, President Joe Biden signed an executive order entitled, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” It establishes the Biden administration’s commitment to immediately work to confront both the causes and impacts of climate change by implementing policy guided by science.
President-elect Biden is expected to initiate the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement on Inauguration Day. But the hard part will be coming up with a quantitative statement of how and by how much U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases will be reduced over time.
As the White House’s tariffs on steel and aluminum have shown, a U.S. president has all the authority he or she needs to impose a carbon border tax.