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Department of Defense Climate Risk Analysis Summary
I. Introduction & Executive Summary
- Core Threat: Climate change is a national security threat reshaping geostrategic, operational, and tactical environments, exacerbating risks to U.S. and allied interests significantly.
- Impacts: Manifests through rising temperatures, altered precipitation, more frequent/intense/unpredictable extreme weather (hurricanes, floods, droughts, fires), sea-level rise, and other climate hazards.
- Security Implications: Directly affects DoD missions, capabilities (training, readiness, operations), equipment, installations, and resources. Indirectly contributes to instability, migration, resource competition, conflict, and crises beyond DoD purview.
- DoD Mandate: Fulfill requirements of Executive Order 14008 to analyze climate security implications and integrate them across the DoD enterprise.
- Key Response Areas: Adaptation, Mitigation, Resilience, and Disaster Response/Assistance.
- Collaboration: Essential through whole-of-government efforts and coordination with allies/partners.
II. Climate Policy & DoD Responsibilities
- Legal Basis: Established under U.S. policy, statutes (e.g., NDAA 2018), executive orders (EO 14008), and DoD Directives (e.g., DoDD 4715.21).
- Key Directives: DoDD 4715.21 outlines adaptation/resilience responsibilities across the Department (USD(P) for strategy, USD(A&S) for force/climate resilience).
- Climate Working Group: Established by EO 14008 to coordinate responses and track implementation.
- Doctrine: CAP (Climate Adaptation Plan) aims for an end-state of "operating under changing climate conditions."
III. Climate Hazards, Impacts & Security Implications
- Hazards & Risks: Climate change increases frequency/intensity of heat, drought, flooding, intensified wildfires, and sea-level rise. Risks are regional but often cross-cutting:
- Resource Scarcity: (Water, food, energy)
- Geopolitical Instability: Increased tensions/influence competition, potential conflict/migration.
- Operational Impacts: Hinder military planning, readiness, basing access, basing conditions, HADR demands.
- Infrastructure Vulnerability: Impacts DoD installations and global supply chains.
- Cascading Effects: Converging hazards (e.g., drought → famine → migration → conflict) overwhelm response capacity, potentially leading to state failure.
- Global Reach: USG Office of Science and Technology Policy coordinates science efforts; Intelligence Community is developing a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on climate security impacts.
IV. Incorporating Climate Risk (Integration)
- Strategy & Planning: Climate considerations to be integrated into core documents: NDS, DPG, Chairman's Risk Assessment, CPG, GEF, Contingency Plans, Service Warfighting Concepts.
- Education: Incorporating climate into DoD educational curricula.
- International Partner Engagement: Using tools (DCAT, OHDACA funds) and initiatives (PESP, DIILS, SPP, DoD Regional Centers for Security Studies) to build partner resilience and share expertise. Climate security is a topic of cooperation within NATO (Climate Change and Security Agenda).
V. Informing & Funding Future Analyses
- Scientific Information: Utilizing DoD-specific tools (DCAT) and validated scientific data/projections for risk assessments. Ongoing review for integration into planning and operations.
- Intelligence: Classified/unclassified intelligence products (Annual Threat Assessments, NIE) provide critical insights into security risks. CSAC advises the Intelligence Community.
- Funding: Prioritizing funding for exercises, wargames, analyses, and stability operations addressing climate change impacts.
VI. Conclusion
- Urgency: Addressing climate change is essential for U.S. national security.
- Path Forward: DCRA is a foundational step towards integrating climate considerations throughout the DoD. Continued analysis, adaptation, mitigation actions, resilience, international collaboration, and investment are vital.
- Action: DoD will work to prevent, mitigate, account for, and respond to climate-related security risks, leveraging whole-government and partner collaboration.
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