The Security Implications of Climate Change

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn PodestaJohn Podesta is president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, D.C., and was chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.Peter OgdenPeter Ogden is a senior national security analyst at CAP. He may be reached at pogden@americanprogress.org. This article was prepared with research assistance from Lillian Smith and derived from a chapter in the November 2007 CSIS/Center for a New American Security monograph,The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.