A new tool that tracks military deployments to climate disasters could shed light on how the traditional war-fighting mission is evolving under a warming climate
CLIMATEWIRE | U.S. troops have long provided assistance to disaster victims. But there's little public information about when, where and how those deployments occur.
“It’s important to the conversations we’re having about climate change and national security to really understand what it means for militaries to have to respond to disasters, not only here in the U.S., but looking at our allies, partners and even adversaries around the world,” Erin Sikorsky, the center’s director, said in an interview.
Though still in its infancy, the tool already has identified 84 global disasters that have warranted some form of military response since June 2022, including 18 events in the United States. Joe Bryan, the Defense Department's chief sustainability officer and senior adviser to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, told an online seminar hosted by the Brookings Institution last year that “climate change is driving demand for mission — from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to changes in the Arctic."
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