Publication

When the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is sent to Congress on February 1st, it will offer an unusual opportunity to shift how the national security community views climate change. Congress required in the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that the Department of Defense (DOD) consider the effects of climate change on all of its "facilities, capabilities and missions," and, perhaps most notably, it called for the Department to incorporate such concerns into the next QDR.