ABSTRACT
On September 30, 2009, Carol Browner, director of the White House Of…ce of Energy and Climate Change Policy, and Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Forces, joined leading military and defense experts to discuss the critical links between climate change, energy, and national security. A key topic discussed was how climate change and the energy situation threaten the country’s national security and the ways the U.S. military is preparing to meet these challenges.
