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Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security
On February 5, 2026, join the Center for Climate and Security online for a webinar exploring how intensifying climate change impacts are continuing to shape global peace and security dynamics as they strain food security, stress social cohesion, shift migration dynamics, and threaten lives. At the same time, the unfettered growth of AI systems is increasingly prominent in discussions about climate change and how this technology will impact global resilience.
This webinar will bring together experts from the security, technology, and climate communities to explore a range of issues, including the security implications of AI’s water and energy demands; the role of AI in advancing early warning and risk anticipation systems; and the potential for AI to both strengthen—or undermine—energy systems and infrastructure resilience in a changing climate. CCS Director Erin Sikorsky will moderate the discussion with panelists Dr. Costas Samaras, Director at the Carnegie Mellon University Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Dr. Kyungmee Kim, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Swedish Defense University.
The panel will be on the record and open to the public, including members of the press.
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Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security
Thursday, February 5, 2026
9:30am–10:30 am ET
Online-only
Watch: CCS Expert Webinar Explores Extreme Weather and Disinformation
By Tom Ellison
Information manipulation by authoritarian states, extremist movements, and private interests is increasingly contributing to and capitalizing on extreme weather, undermining security and democratic discourse.
That was one key message from a recent webinar from the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), which brought together national security, climate, and information experts for a discussion available to watch here. Deputy Director Tom Ellison gave an overview of CCS’s work on climate security, information manipulation, and democratic governance, with support from the John and James L. Knight Foundation. This work aims to close gaps at the collision of security, climate, and information issues, including analysis of how actors like Russia amplify climate disinformation to weaken democratic rivals, and exercises on how US states and cities can reckon with intensifying climate, security, and information challenges.
(more…)We’re Hiring: Research Fellow for the Center for Climate and Security
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) seeks to hire a full-time Research Fellow for the Center for Climate and Security (CCS). This is an entry-level position focused on supporting our research on addressing climate security risks and solutions. The person in this role will work closely with the CCS Director, Deputy Director, and other members of the CCS team.
Preparing for Disaster: Climate-Related Provisions in the FY26 NDAA
By John Conger
On December 19, President Trump signed the FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was passed with bipartisan support by Congress.
While the tone of both the Pentagon and Congress has shifted in recent years, and explicit discussion of climate change as a national security issue has been deprioritized, the operational impacts of climate-driven hazards are clearly reflected in this year’s legislation. Where past NDAAs emphasized long-term resilience, Arctic strategy, or climate risk assessments, the FY26 NDAA focuses more narrowly and pragmatically on preparing the force for wildfires and natural disasters that are already affecting military operations, installations, and personnel.
This shift mirrors operational reality. US forces—particularly the National Guard—are increasingly deployed domestically in response to extreme weather events. The Center for Climate and Security tracks these trends through its Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker, which documents the growing tempo and scope of military disaster response missions.
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