How Biden's national security strategy centers climate change
integrates global warming into national security policy to an unprecedented extent, making clear the administration views the issue as “the existential challenge of our time.”targets is one of several dynamics at play that will either point toward a more stable world or help usher in “[a]n age of conflict and discord,” per the White House.and think tanks have pointed to climate change as a threat multiplier.
For example, climate change can worsen extreme weather and climate events, from hurricanes to droughts, leading to politically destabilizing mass migrations that can entangle the U.S. military in humanitarian relief missions. The new strategy designates climate change as being among the greatest of the world’s shared challenges, which lies “[a]t the very core of national and international security,” along with food insecurity, terrorism and inflation.
It states the U.S. is open to cooperating on shared challenges with rivals, pointing to climate talks with China.also takes a swipe at China’s climate policies, stating the Chinese government “[a]lso continues to endanger the world with inadequate action on climate change domestically, particularly regarding massive coal power use and build up.
. It described the climate challenge in less dire terms: “Climate change is an urgent and growing threat.”Now, climate change impacts are far more severe, and the window to cut emissions sufficiently to meet the Paris targets is rapidly closing. At the same time, the U.S. is locked in far more heated competition with China.
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