The Jackson Hole Global Forum 2021
Climate Change and National Security
The Jackson Hole Global Forum: Climate and National Security, hosted by the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs in partnership with the Center for Climate and Security and Prime Movers Lab brought U.S. and global military leaders, security professionals, business executives, entrepreneurs, investors, policy leaders and citizens together to advance understanding and action to respond to the security implications of a changing climate.
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Consistent with advice of recent Defense Secretary James Mattis, who argued for a “whole-of-government response” to climate change, the Forum assessed and identified ways to prepare for climate change risks to national and global security and examined forward-looking climate action steps and opportunities to build resilience and act on climate.
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Iraq War Veteran
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Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Member, Senate Armed Services Committee; Chair, Subcommittee on Airland
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Member, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; Chair, Fisheries, Water and Wildlife Subcommittee
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Co-Founder, Senate Environmental Justice Caucus
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Member, Special Committee on the Climate Crisis
MORNING: RISKS
Managing & preparing for the unavoidable
Jackson Hole Global Forum Welcome with Jackson Hole Mayor Hailey Morton Levinson​
9 - 9:20 am MT
Opening Remarks from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth
9:20 - 9:30 am MT
Keynote - "View from the Edge: A Ski Mountaineer's Perspective on Climate Change"
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Kit DesLauriers, Ski Mountaineer
9:30 - 10 am MT
What's the Worst that Could Happen? Avoiding the Unmanageable
Moderator - Kate Guy, Sr. Research Fellow, Center for Climate and Security
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Hon. Sherri Goodman, Fmr. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense; Secretary-General of the International Military Council on Climate and Security; Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board Member
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Rear Admiral Len Hering Sr., USN (Ret); Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board Member
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Rear Admiral Ann Phillips, USN (Ret.); Special Assistant to the Virginia Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection; Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board Member
10 - 11 am MT
National Security Risks, Impacts and Future Scenarios in Wyoming and the West
Moderator - Erin Sikorsky, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Security
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Mark Newcomb, Teton County Commissioner; JHCGA Board Member
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Rear Admiral, David Titley, USN (Ret.); Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board Member
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Hon. Richard Holwill, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador; JHCGA Advisory Board Member
11 - 12 pm MT
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First Person to Ski Seven Summits
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First Woman to Ski Everest
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2015 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year
AFTERNOON: solutions
A Climate Security Plan for America
Investing in Solutions Conversation
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Chris Sacca, Managing Director, Lowercarbon Capital; Shark Tank judge
12 - 12:30 pm MT
Global Preparedness and Collaboration
Moderator - Sweta Chakraborty, Risk and Behavioral Scientist; President for U.S. Operations, “We Don’t Have Time”
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(Netherlands) Vice Admiral Ben Bekkering (Ret.), Netherlands Royal Navy
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(Australia) Cheryl Durrant, Fmr. Director of Preparedness and Mobilisation, Australian Department of Defense
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(New Zealand) Jane Neilson, Senior Analyst, Climate Change and Security, Policy Branch, New Zealand Ministry of Defence
12:30 - 1:30 pm MT
A Climate Security Plan for America
Moderator - Lee Ann Bryan, Analyst, International Technology and Trade Associates
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Lt. Gen. John Castellaw, USMC (Ret.); Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board Member
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Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, USN (Ret.); Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board Member
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Dr. Marcus King, Associate Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; Senior Fellow Center for Climate and Security
1:30 - 2:30 pm MT
Climate Solutions
Moderator - Erika Karp, Executive Managing Director, Chief Impact Officer, Pathstone
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Jiang Lin, Nat Simons Presidential Chair in China Energy Policy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; JHCGA Advisory Board Member
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Stephanie Tedy, Vice President and Head of Strategic Philanthropy, Bank of the West
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Carly Anderson, Partner and Principal Chemical Engineer, Prime Movers Lab
2:30 - 3:30 pm MT
Creating a Resilient Wyoming
Moderator - Phil Cameron, Executive Director, Energy Conservation Works
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Rob Godby, Interim Dean, College of Business, University of Wyoming; JHCGA Advisory Board Member
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David Dodson, Lecturer in Management, Stanford University; 2018 U.S. Wyoming Senate candidate; JHCGA Distinguished Fellow
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Lisa Kitchin, Managing Director, First Republic Investment Management
3:30 - 4:30 pm MT
Closing Conversation and Takeaways
4:30 - 5 pm MT
LEADING
SPONSORS
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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE MEMBERS
Shelby Davis
Ross and Christine Hartley
Goldman Sonnenfeldt Foundation
Jay Varley
John and Ann Willott
The Wort Hotel
Center for Climate and Security
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The Center for Climate and Security, a non-partisan institute of the Council on Strategic Risks, has a team and distinguished Advisory Board of security and military experts. CCS envisions a climate-resilient world which recognizes that climate change threats to security are already significant and unprecedented, and acts to address those threats in a manner that is commensurate to their scale, consequence and probability.
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In light of an increase in threats to security exacerbated by the effects of a changing climate, CCS develops policies that will adequately manage unavoidable effects on security and help to avoid effects on security that would be unmanageable or unpredictable. This includes developing robust policies that seek to reduce the scope and scale of climate change in order to avoid unmanageable or unpredictable threats. CCS also develops robust adaptation policies that seek to manage the unavoidable, or “locked in” threats to security resulting from a changing climate.
CCS has focused its efforts on translating the U.S. national security consensus on climate change it built in the years leading up to 2017 – as represented in our Climate Security Consensus Project, the CSAG Briefing Book for a New Administration and “Responsibility to Prepare” framework, - into a broader political base of support for climate and security issues.
