To win the climate battle, we need the intelligence community

The reality is the intelligence community can and should do both because climate change presents an incredible risk to global stability. With John Kerry John KerryKerry calls for decade of action on climate change Greta Thunberg presses Biden administration to treat climate crisis like a crisis To win the climate battle, we need the intelligence community MORE at the helm of international efforts and an experienced team of Cabinet officials, the Biden administration will attempt to steer a unified response to climate change. But policymakers need a dedicated, expert intelligence unit to support their efforts to make informed decisions on climate-induced national security risks. The very real domestic and overseas threats posed by climate change have been on the minds of the U.S. military and intelligence community for decades. Fortunately, President Biden’s newly confirmed director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines Avril HainesBidens Middle East policy cannot be anti-Trump or an Obama repeat To win the climate battle, we need the intelligence community The intelligence community must evolve with the information age MORE, could stand up an interdisciplinary, interagency environmental mission center to support intelligence collection and analysis of climate change impacts.