Press coverage has started the day before the official launch of “
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change,” a report by 11 retired U.S.
generals and admirals organized by the CNA Corporation, a security think tank based in Alexandria, Virginia. Sherri Goodman, the former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security during the Clinton Administrations has assembled this group with financial support from the Rockefeller Family Foundations.
The Washington Post,
New York Times,
CNN, and
BBC all have coverage. An extended
press release is available on the CNA site. The report will be available
here on Monday, April 16.
Stay tuned as UK Foreign Secretary
Margaret Beckett will make April 17 climate and security day at the UN Security Council.