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In this limited series from The New York Times, hear urgent and frank conversations about the growing threat of climate change with top world leaders, business leaders and policymakers recorded live at the annual Climate Forward conference in New York City.
As climate change accelerates, its consequences are reshaping global security. At the Climate Forward live event, Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said the Trump administration’s climate policies could pose a national security threat to the United States.
This risk is already real to many in the military, he said. “Ask any man or woman with stars on their shoulders or general officers,” Sullivan said, “and they will tell you the climate crisis is real and has an operational impact on them.”
In a conversation with Helene Cooper, Sullivan discussed about how climate change was shaping the U.S. competition with China and how a rapidly warming planet was creating new threats, from growing food insecurity in developing nations to transforming the battlefields of the future.
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David Gelles reports on climate change and leads The Times’s Climate Forward newsletter and events series.
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