Climate Change, State Resilience and Global Security Conference

November 4, 2009

CNA Hosts "Climate Change, State Resilience and Global Security Conference" bringing together security leaders from around the world to explore climate change-related issues facing the U.S., China, and Latin America

• News release
• Conference materials

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Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ronald Filadelfo, Director, CNA Environmental and Energy Team
Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA, and Executive Director, CNA Military Advisory Board

Keynote Addresses

Sen. John Warner, former United States Senator from Virginia

Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, UK Ministry of Defence/Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Climate and Energy Security Envoy

Climate Change and U.S. National Security

Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, USN (Ret.), Member, CNA Military Advisory Board

Panel I

 

THE FUTURE LANDSCAPE FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND DISASTER CRISIS RELIEF: POLITICAL, MILITARY, AND INTERAGENCY PERSPECTIVES

Moderator: Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA and Executive Director, CNA Military Advisory Board
Scenario Director: Edsel McGrady, Research Analyst, CNA
Maria Blair, Deputy Associate Director for Climate Change Adaptation, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), President, CNA Institute for Public Research
Admiral John Nathman, USN (Ret.), CNA Military Advisory Board
Nigel Purvis, President, Climate Advisers
William Wise, Associate Director, Southeast Asia Studies, John Hopkins University

SPECIAL ADDRESS
Major General Richard Engel, USAF (Ret.), Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Panel II

CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY IN LATIN AMERICA

Moderator: Kent Butts, Professor, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College
Dr. David Catarious, Research Analyst, CNA
Major General Eduardo Behar Benitez, Chief Rep. of Colombia to the Inter-American Defense Board
Dr. Ralph Espach, Research Analyst, CNA
Shiloh Fetzek, Head, Climate Change and Security Programme, RUSI
Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Panel III

CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY IN CHINA

Moderator: Michael Clarke, Director, RUSI
Marcus King, Research Analyst, CNA
Joanna Lewis, Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University
Peter Mackenzie, China Analyst, CNA
Alexander Neill, Head, Asia Programme, RUSI

CONCLUDING REMARKS
Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA, and Executive Director, CNA Military Advisory Board