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Terming global climate impacts a "crisis multiplier," the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on 14 June adopted a plan for
the first time in its history that protects its troops and military
installations, along with its territories, against global warming
impacts such as flooding and drought.
NATO also plans to work with its members towards a net-zero
carbon goal for its troops and installations by 2050.
In the opening speech at the 2021 NATO Summit in Brussels,
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the NATO Action Plan on Climate Change
and Security will prepare the organization to be resilient, and
to adapt and operate in what he called "an unpredictable world"
where the threats to all of its allies, close to 1 billion people,
have changed.
"Climate change is a crisis multiplier" that will lead to
conflict over scarce resources like water and land, forcing
millions of people to migrate, Stoltenberg said. "So, therefore it
matters for our security, and therefore it also matters for
NATO."
Stoltenberg first gave a preview of NATO's climate plan
at the Leaders Summit on Climate in April, where he discussed the
threats posed by global warming with top defense officials from the
US, UK, Spain, Iraq, and Kenya.
NATO's plan calls for an alliance-wide annual assessment of its
assets and installations, prioritizing sustainable technologies in
its purchases of fuel and equipment, and outlines how the
militaries of its members must learn to adapt and operate under all
extreme climate-fueled weather conditions.
The organization also will develop methodologies for assessing
GHG emissions from its military activities. At the same time, the
climate plan said NATO will protect its military installations
across the globe from the threat that a rise in sea levels poses
and its troops from extreme heat caused by desertification.
"So, climate change will directly affect how we develop
equipment, how we do exercises, our military planning, and all
that," Stoltenberg added.
A recent report by the US Office of the Director of National
Intelligence said the physical effects of climate change are likely
to intensify during the next two decades, especially in the 2030s,
with more droughts, storms, an increase in sea levels, and melting
of the Arctic ice caps.
In a 14 June news conference, US President Joe Biden, who has
made tackling the climate crisis a priority, said he is especially
pleased with NATO's adoption of the action plan, "which several
years ago people thought we would never do."
Posted 15 June 2021 by Amena Saiyid, Senior Climate and Energy Research Analyst
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