The Jackson Hole Global Forum 2021

Climate Change and National Security

The Jackson Hole Global Forum: Climate and National Security, hosted by the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs in partnership with the Center for Climate and Security and Prime Movers Lab will bring U.S. and global military leaders, security professionals, business executives, entrepreneurs, investors, policy leaders and citizens together to advance understanding and action that responds to the security implications of a changing climate.

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Consistent with advice of recent Defense Secretary James Mattis, who argued for a “whole-of-government response” to climate change, the Forum will assess and identify ways to prepare for climate change risks to national and global security and examine forward-looking climate action steps and opportunities to build resilience and act on climate.

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Center for Climate and Security

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The Center for Climate and Security, a non-partisan institute of the Council on Strategic Risks, has a team and distinguished Advisory Board of security and military experts. CCS envisions a climate-resilient world which recognizes that climate change threats to security are already significant and unprecedented, and acts to address those threats in a manner that is commensurate to their scale, consequence and probability.

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In light of an increase in threats to security exacerbated by the effects of a changing climate, CCS develops policies that will adequately manage unavoidable effects on security and help to avoid effects on security that would be unmanageable or unpredictable. This includes developing robust policies that seek to reduce the scope and scale of climate change in order to avoid unmanageable or unpredictable threats.  CCS also develops robust adaptation policies that seek to manage the unavoidable, or “locked in” threats to security resulting from a changing climate.

CCS has focused its efforts on translating the U.S. national security consensus on climate change it built in the years leading up to 2017 – as represented in our Climate Security Consensus Project, the CSAG Briefing Book for a New Administration and “Responsibility to Prepare” framework, - into a broader political base of support for climate and security issues.

Prime Movers Lab

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Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. They are a billion-dollar deep tech fund whose mission drives their investments in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.

Prime Movers Lab is committed to pioneering a new approach to VC. They offer Prime Movers comprehensive resources and integrated support to accelerate the transformation of world-class technical experts into extraordinary executives. Prime Movers Lab wants the money they invest to be the least valuable part of their relationship with their portfolio companies.

Their team has developed in-depth academic scientific research, commercialized novel intellectual property, scaled significant enterprises, and mentored renowned scientists on their entrepreneurial journey. They only make a small number of investments so they can dive deep with every Prime Mover they back and ensure that they create outsized value to dramatically improve the odds of success.