A climate security plan for America
This report proposes a Climate Security Plan for America that the President should announce and implement through a newly-created Presidential National Security Directive in order to combat these unprecedented security risks urgently and comprehensively.
The strategy embodied in the Climate Security Plan for America is based on two fundamental principles.
First, to make a real difference in addressing the security risks posed by climate change, climate security must be an articulated priority of the President, one communicated plainly to both the American people and to the Federal agencies tasked to respond to the threat.
Second, climate impacts must be integrated into the considerations of security actors throughout the government, not just as a separate category of action, but as a risk that informs and affects the security priorities with which these agencies wrestle on a daily basis.