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The effects of climate change and the way we use energy are significant U.S. national security challenges. Addressing them will be increasingly important for our nation’s defense. The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) invites you to attend an event that will examine these critical issues, featuring a keynote address by Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.

A roundtable discussion among national security experts will follow the keynote address. Experts will address questions including: How will energy and water challenges in Pakistan and Afghanistan affect current operations in the region and U.S. military bases around the globe? How will competition for energy, strategic minerals, food, and water affect countries and regions of strategic importance – from Afghanistan to the Arctic, China to Yemen?

This event marks the launch of the groundbreaking CNAS report Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces, which examines the dual pressures of climate change and energy on each U.S. military service and regional combatant command. Authors Christine Parthemore; Commander Herb Carmen, USN; and Will Rogers map a road ahead to improve the country’s ability to promote national security in the face of a changing climate.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change

PANEL DISCUSSION

• Dr. David Kilcullen, President and CEO of Caerus
• Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, USN Head of the Navy’s Task Force Energy Director, Fleet Readiness Division on the Navy Staff
• Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow, CNAS Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly
• Christine Parthemore, Bacevich Fellow, CNAS

2:30-3:00 p.m.: Check-in and registration
3:00-5:30 p.m.: Event
5:30-7:00 p.m.: Cocktail reception

Location:
The Willard InterContinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

28/04/2010 at 03:00PM

Hilton Crystal City at Ronald Reagan National Airport – Farragut Room

2399 Jefferson Davis Highway

Arlington, VA 22202

Keynote Speaker

Carol Browner, Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy

Featuring

Senator John W. Warner

Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Forces

VADM Dennis V. McGinn USN (Ret.), Member, CNA Military Advisory Board

Senior representatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps

You must register for this free event. Space is limited. Please email [email protected] for registration. Lunch will be served. Parking is available at the Hilton. The Hilton is 3 blocks souhttp://hillheat.com/admin/hearings/events/newth of the Crystal City Metro Station (yellow and blue line). For questions call (202) 887-8853.

We strongly encourage you and other key members of your organization to attend. This will be a special opportunity to hear from and ask questions of leadership with the Department of Defense and Services.

PROGRAM AGENDA

9:00 AM	Meet & Greet, coffee and refreshments – Farragut Room
9:30 AM	Welcome VADM Norbert R. Ryan, Jr. USN (Ret.), President, Military Officers Association of America
9:40 AM	Introduction Remarks Senator John W. Warner
9:50 AM	Remarks Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary of CNA
10:00 AM	Remarks Sharon Burke, Vice President, National Security for the Center for a New American Security
10:05 AM	Military challenges and the role of the Department of Defense Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Forces
10: 25 AM	Climate change as a threat to our national security and men and women in uniform VADM Dennis V. McGinn USN (Ret.), Member, CNA Military Advisory Board
10:50 AM	Break
11:10 AM	Remarks Phyllis Cuttino, Director, Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, Pew Charitable Trusts
11:20 AM	Occupational Health (ESOH)
12:30 PM	Lunch – Move to Crystal Room
1:00 PM	*Keynote Lunch Speaker Carol Browner, Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy
1:30	Close

30/09/2009 at 09:00AM

The full committee will meet to receive testimony on global maritime strategy initiatives. In October the Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps released A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower.

Witnesses:

• Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, Chief of Naval Operations
• Admiral Thad W. Allen, USCG, Commandant of the Coast Guard
• General James T. Conway, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps

EE News:

The hearing comes amidst growing concern over climate change in the Arctic and its effect on national security and international relations, as new shipping routes open and the area becomes more accessible for oil and gas extraction.

The issue has not escaped the notice of the U.S. military. In mid-October, the Coast Guard announced plans for an operational base in Barrow, Alaska, to deal with increased shipping in the North Pole region.

Later that month, the Navy, Coast Guard and Marines released an updated national maritime strategy, which for the first time includes global warming – particularly its effects in the polar region – as a concern for the U.S. fleet.

It is that strategy that is at the center of Thursday’s House hearing.

“As we look at maritime strategy on a global basis, we can’t ignore the future of the Arctic, the implications of access to the Arctic, national security issues, environmental issues, energy issues associated with it,” Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen said in September at a Washington, D.C., conference on national security sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. “Where do we invest our money? How do we develop policies?”

Allen, one of three top military officials scheduled to testify at the hearing, also drew a link between climate change in the Arctic and U.S. participation in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, a hot-button issue this fall on Capitol Hill.

The United States is the only major industrialized nation that has failed to ratify the 25-year-old agreement, which governs how countries manage their exclusive economic zones and seabed mineral rights, sets rules for navigating international waters, and addresses species protection and other environmental issues.

“The United States must ratify the Law of the Sea treaty,” Allen said. “We must become an international player. We must be at the table.”

13/12/2007 at 10:00AM

“National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

• Admiral Joseph W. Prueher, USN (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command, Former Ambassador to China
• General Charles F. Wald, USAF (Ret.), Former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command
• Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.), Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the First Commander of the Naval Space Command

09/05/2007 at 09:30AM