Completed and Ongoing Projects

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(Ongoing).

In the context of Chinese-American government cooperation to address issues of climate and environmental security in a time of geopolitical competition, Climate and Environmental Security, LLC and the Songyun Forum, Shanghai Institutes for International Strategic Studies and are co-hosting a Track 2 dialog wherein selected, mid-career Chinese and American scholars and practitioners of environmental security and international relations, are meeting for a series of quarterly, facilitated, on-line discussions during 2023 -2024.

(July 2021 – June 2023). 

With renewed emphasis on climate security by the Biden administration, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command established a Climate Change Impacts Program under the management of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management in Honolulu. Climate and Environmental Security, LLC provided expert assistance to the center, developing a draft mission statement, work plan, and job descriptions for staffing, while contributing science-based content for briefings and training documents.

(April - September 2022). 

The Chinese Academy of Sciences Northwest Institute for Eco-environment and Resources awarded a research grant, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Visiting Project of High-level Foreign Experts, to study “Mongolian Sand and Dust Storms’ Impacts on Asia-Pacific Environmental Security.” Final report submitted in September 2022. Edited version published in Security Nexus. Available at: https://dkiapcss.edu/nexus_articles/mongolian-sand-and-dust-storms-impacts-on-asia-pacific-environmental-security/.

(July - August 2023). 

Served as Training Professor in this two-week course sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the UN Environment Program and the International Desert Research Association, in Beijing and Naiman, Inner Mongolia. Lectured on "Desertification and the Environmental Security Domain,” and "Mongolian Sand and Dust Storms’ Impacts on Asia-Pacific Environmental Security.” Served as a resource in multidisciplinary discussions and in field visits to research and test sites in the Horqin Sandy Lands.Students were faculty members and graduate students from Africa and central Asia.