![]() ![]() These patterns can reveal areas of risk that may be targeted for further investigation or prioritized for adaptive action.The framework provides a standardized means to organize ways in which climate change could affect readiness and to visualize and analyze patterns among framework elements.The climate readiness framework can provide a useful structure for understanding readiness vulnerability to climate risk The proposed climate readiness framework can provide a useful structure for understanding readiness vulnerability to climate risk.Near-term climate impacts may be small and locally addressed using tools currently available to operational and tactical decisionmakers it remains possible to view climate change mainly as a "training condition" related to short-term weather events.Ĭlimate risk is not currently integrated with readiness measurement or reporting. ![]() Many readiness-related decisions occur at the operational and tactical levels, but climate-related decisionmaking will need to occur primarily at the strategic level.Climate and readiness thinking operate on different timescales.Acknowledging that climate effects are likely to become more severe as global temperatures rise, the authors of this report discuss the results of an initial study they conducted to develop links between climate and readiness, laying the groundwork for the eventual integration of climate risk with quantitative readiness assessment and decisionmaking to help ensure that military forces can reliably and affordably sustain needed readiness in a changing climate.Ī key contribution of the study is a climate readiness framework for understanding the risk to readiness that may result from a combination of (1) exposure to climate hazards, such as drought, flooding, wildfire, and tropical storms, and (2) the underlying vulnerability of readiness inputs - i.e., people, training, equipment, and force projection - to such hazard exposure.Ĭlimate and readiness are understood and studied by separate communities strategic goals, from defending the homeland to deterring aggression and strategic attacks. Generating, maintaining, and even increasing force readiness in light of changing climate threats is a key component of meeting high-level U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must operate is being affected by climate hazards, which adversely affect the performance of the joint force and the systems that support it. The physical environment in which the U.S. ![]()
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