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    Sherri Goodman: Incorporate Climate Risks into Diplomacy, Development, and Defense

    February 16, 2017 By Schuyler Null

    “We are seeing floods, droughts, extreme weather events, migration of people across borders, as well as sea-level rise, and we are going to see increasing challenges,” says Wilson Center Senior Fellow Sherri Goodman in an interview with the German think tank, adelphi.

    Speaking at the Planetary Security Conference in The Hague, the former deputy undersecretary of defense for environmental security at the Pentagon said the U.S. government should be integrating our growing understanding of these risks into the three Ds: diplomacy, development, and defense:

    In diplomacy, we need to understand how this is changing how we interact with countries. We need to address these risks at the highest diplomatic level. Following on from the successful agreement in Paris, we need to integrate these into our diplomatic practices worldwide.

    In development, we need to understand how climate risks from drought to floods are affecting the ability of people to grow and prosper across the planet, and to take steps to improve agriculture and particularly to reduce the risks of water scarcity and water shortage.

    Finally, in defense, we need to also to understand how these very same risks are increasing the demands for our military and other first responders to respond to emergency cases of natural disasters whether it is typhoons in the Pacific or whether it is floods in various places. So we need to be able to get in front of these risks to prevent them and understand how they are changing the demand signal for our troops that have to deploy across the planet.”

    Sources: adelphi.

    Video Credit: adelphi.

    Topics: climate change, development, environment, environmental security, Eye On, foreign policy, military, North America, security, U.S., video, water

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