ASP and Sierra Club Release Joint Report Outlining Dangers of Our Reliance on...
On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Sierra Club and the American Security Project released a joint report entitled “Ending Our Dependence on Oil,” which shows how America’s addiction to oil...
View ArticleClimate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border
Climate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border ASP report finds likelihood of increased immigration across America’s southern-border due to climate change Washington, D.C., 01...
View ArticleASP and Sierra Club Release Joint Report Outlining Dangers of Our Reliance on...
On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Sierra Club and the American Security Project released a joint report entitled “Ending Our Dependence on Oil,” which shows how America’s addiction to oil...
View ArticleClimate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border
Climate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border ASP report finds likelihood of increased immigration across America’s southern-border due to climate change Washington, D.C., 01...
View ArticleDegrees of Risk: Defining a Risk Management Framework for Climate Security
Source: E3g.org, February 2011 ASP Fellow Bernard Finel contributes to a new climate security report. Executive Summary: There is a growing consensus in the security community that climate change...
View ArticlePay Now, Pay Later: A State-by-State Assessment of the Costs of Climate Change
The American Security Project publishes telling reports on the economic costs of inaction on climate change for each state in the U.S. WASHINGTON D.C. April 19, 2011 – Today the American Security...
View ArticlePay Now, Pay Later: A State-by-State Assessment of the Costs of Climate Change
The American Security Project publishes telling reports on the economic costs of inaction on climate change for each state in the U.S. WASHINGTON D.C. April 19, 2011 – Today the American Security...
View ArticleA New Discourse: Climate Change in the Face of a Shifting U.S. Energy Portfolio
Shale Gas Rig in Marcellus Shale (Photo credit: Ruhrfisch) Technological innovations have led to a sharp rise in natural gas production in the past decades. Proponents of natural gas have touted the...
View ArticleOffshore Oil Drilling in the Arctic
In conjunction with The Arctic Institute By Nicholas Cunningham Due to rising global temperatures, sea ice in the Arctic is melting quickly, opening up vast new frontiers to oil and gas development....
View ArticleFACT SHEET: Arctic Climate and Energy
This summer companies plans to lead exploration for shale oil reserves and new offshore oil basins in the Arctic. If explorations are successful, greater Alaskan oil production will provide needed jobs...
View ArticleClimate Change we either Pay Now, or Pay Later
Last year, ASP released a series of 50 reports which analyze and project possible economic losses—or in some cases, gains—on a state-by-state basis as a result of unmitigated climate change. These...
View ArticleAmerican Security: The Impacts of Climate Change
Climate change poses significant long-term national security threats to the United States. Drought, severe storms, floods, altered agricultural productivity and disease are just some of the...
View ArticleMilitary Basing and Climate Change
Climate change poses significant long-term national security threats to the United States. Drought, severe storms, floods, and altered natural resource availability are just some of the consequences...
View ArticleClimate Change, The Arab Spring and Food Prices
Climate change is inextricably linked to national security. The effects of climate change – drought, severe storms, flooding, reduced agricultural activity – will present serious problems to countries...
View ArticleCSR PART THREE: CLIMATE CHANGE & THE HOMELAND
America’s national security leaders agree that climate change is a threat to national security, because it will affect global stability and humanitarian crises around the world. However, American...
View ArticleCSR PART TWO: CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL SECURITY
Climate change will exacerbate regional and local tensions in ‘hot-zones’ around the world. In these regions, the impacts of a changing climate will act as an accelerant of instability by multiplying...
View ArticleCSR – PART ONE: CLIMATE CHANGE & SECURITY
Climate change is real: we see its impacts every day, around the world. A melting Arctic, unprecedented droughts across the world, extreme examples of flooding, and uncontrollable wildfires are all...
View ArticleClimate Security Report
One of the most significant challenges to the global security system in the 21st Century will be a changing climate; the effects of these changes are already being felt all over the world. Climate...
View ArticlePERSPECTIVE: The Dams of the Himalayas
Strategic Challenges in a Rapidly Changing Region More than one in five people in the world depend on the great rivers that emanate from the Himalayas. The environment of that region is changing...
View ArticleThe Global Security Defense Index on Climate Change: Preliminary Results
The American Security Project releases the preliminary results of a new resource on climate change and national security: The Global Security and Defense Index on Climate Change. The Index analyzes how...
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