Advanced satellite technologies play a vital role in monitoring and forecasting changes in the climate and attendant impacts on for example, ocean acidification for food security, groundwater depletion, comprehensive forecasting for extreme weather events. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (i.e. drones) can help collect information for disaster response and recovery efforts. Additive manufacturing or 3D printing, could allow militaries and humanitarian organizations provide relief after natural disasters the capacity to print temporary structures and rapidly produce on the ground replacement parts and tools. Social media, and crowd-sourced data, can help democratize responses to, and monitoring of, climate change risks. Advanced energy technologies can help militaries be better war-fighters, while simultaneously reducing emissions.

Devoting resources to the development of technologies that will help address the security implications of climate change is a critical component to a comprehensive risk management strategy.

Read more:

2014: The U.S. Military, 3D Printing, and a Climate Secure Future, Werrell, C., Femia, F. Center for Climate and Security
2013: World Disasters Report: Focus on technology and the future of humanitarian action. IFRC
2013: Big Data, Communities and Ethical Resilience: A Framework for Action. Crawford, Kate; Faleiros, Gustavo; Luers, Amy;  Meier, Patrick; Perlich, Claudia  and Jer ThorpWhite Paper for PopTech and Rockefeller Foundation
2013: Democratizing Mobile App Development for Disaster Management.  Shih, Fuming, et al. IJCAI Semantic Cities.
2013: Problems from Hell, Solution in the Heavens?: Identifying Obstacles and Opportunities for Employing Geospatial Technologies to Document and Mitigate Mass Atrocities. Ben Yunmo Wang, Nathaniel A. Raymond, Gabrielle Gould, Isaac Baker, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
2012: The 3D Printing Revolution, Climate Change and National Security: An Opportunity for U.S. Leadership, Werrell, C, Femia, F. Center for Climate and Security
2102: Sentries in the Sky: Using Space Technology for Disaster Response. Rogers, W. CNAS
2011: From the Barracks to the Battlefield: Clean Energy Innovation and Americas Armed Forces. Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.
2011: The Use of Remote Sensing in Climate Change Research. United States Naval Academy
2009: New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts, Diane Coyle and Patrick Meier, UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation.
2008: Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on D0D Energy Strategy: More Fight – Less Fuel.