Climate Change, State Resilience and Global Security

Agenda
CNA’s Climate Change, State Resilience and Global Security Conference brought together security leaders from around the world to explore climate change-related issues facing the U.S., China, and Latin America.
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Participants
"Climate Change, State Resilience and Global Security" featured analysts, scholars, policy experts and military leaders including former U.S. Senator John Warner; UK Ministry of Defence Climate and Energy Security Envoy, Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti; Director of the British Royal United Services Institutes (RUSI), Michael Clark; Director of the Climate Change and State Stability Program at the National Intelligence Council, Major General Richard Engel, USAF (Ret.); Maria Blair, White House Council on Environmental Quality's Deputy Associate Director for Climate Change Adaptation; Major General Eduardo Behar Benitez, Chief Representative of Colombia to the Inter-American Defense Board; Admiral John Nathman, USN (ret), CNA MAB member, and Sherri Goodman, CNA Senior Vice President, General Counsel and MAB Executive Director.
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Gaming Exercise
A gaming exercise, titled "Future Landscape for International Humanitarian and Disaster Crisis Relief from Political, Military, and Interagency Perspectives," developed for the conference by CNA analysts, highlighted the challenges nations may face in the future given a scenario of increased climate impacts and scarce resources, and explored what can be done now to allow us to adapt and prepare to better meet those challenges.
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Source Materials — Panel II: Climate Change and Security in Latin America
Dr. David Catarious and Dr. Ralph Espach, Research Analysts with CNA Environment and Energy, discuss findings from their report Impacts of Climate Change on Colombia's National and Regional Security.
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