The White House has released a fact sheet on the Biden administration's efforts at this week's United Nations Global Climate Change Summit, detailing the work the U.S. delegation will undergo while attending.
According to the US delegation, fact sheet, The climate conference in Azerbaijan will focus on three main pillars, one of which is addressing the national security “risks” posed by climate change.
“At COP29, the U.S. delegation will seize the economic opportunities of the clean energy transition, address the risks that climate change poses to our national security, and accelerate climate action in this decisive decade,” the fact sheet states. “We will promote U.S. efforts to
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The document pointed to nuclear energy production and clean energy capabilities as two key elements that the climate change delegation will focus on in relation to national security.
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Meanwhile, the Biden administration issued the following statement in September: “A United States Framework for Climate Resilience and Security.” The paper argued that the U.S. national security community has “long understood” the threat climate change poses to “existing security threats and vulnerabilities.”
A girl walks near the Baku Olympic Stadium, the venue for the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, on October 23, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Baku in November 2024. (Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)
The framework calls for an increase in flooding and severe storms affecting military bases, extreme heat that “costs lives, reduces productivity, and damages critical infrastructure,” and reduced food security as a result of droughts and air pollution. are listed. It also pointed to the need for the military to respond to the increasing number of disasters caused by climate change, saying the framework would lead to resource depletion.
“The devastating effects of the climate crisis themselves pose new and immediate threats to which we must protect our communities,” the framework states. The document was signed by John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy, and Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to the President.
President Biden this week imposed a new tax on methane emissions. (Getty Images)
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In his first days in office, President Biden signed a series of executive orders that put “climate change at the center of foreign policy planning, diplomacy, and national security preparedness.” According to John Kerry, Biden's former climate envoy. Biden became the first president in U.S. history to direct U.S. intelligence agencies to study the national security risks posed by climate change.
