NWC Issues in National Security Lecture Series, Lecture 5 "Global Climate Issues"
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2022-11-23

This lecture took place November 21, 2022. 

From Professor Cameron: Climate change affects security around the world. Cmdr. Cameron explores the basics of climate change and the many ways it interacts with national security. For over 20 years, the DoD has increasingly incorporated a variety of climate-related considerations into defense which is culminating in the recent surge of activities. This includes adapting to environmental changes, building resiliency within the infrastructure, and understanding the geostrategic and operational implications. Global changes to climate have significant impacts to local water, food, and other resources leading to potentially destabilizing effects on fragile state systems and migration. These changes affect the entire globe—leaving each country (allies and adversaries alike) to determine their unique security interests. The countries and organizations that best understand and anticipate these changes will be the best prepared to fight and win in the unstable climatic environment of the next century.
 
Cmdr. Andrea H. Cameron, U.S. Navy, is a permanent military professor teaching policy analysis in the National Security Affairs Department and the founding director of the Climate and Human Security Studies Group. Her academic interests explore non-traditional and transnational security threats and their impact on U.S. strategic, national security and economic interests. These research interests include climate change and security, climate and energy policy, human security topics and civil-military coordination during humanitarian assistance/disaster relief.  In Spring 2023, Cmdr. Cameron will be a Fulbright Scholar in NATO Security Studies in Brussels, Belgium, to research NATO climate security policy development.

The views presented by the faculty or other guest speakers do not reflect official positions of the Naval War College, DON or DOD.