The Department of the Navy has released its plans for how it will handle ‘climate change‘ and continue toward the Biden government’s mandate of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
“Climate change is one of the most destabilizing forces of our time, exacerbating other national security concerns and posing serious readiness challenges,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said in the introduction to the 32-page report. “Our naval and amphibious forces are in the crosshairs of the climate crisis and this strategy provides the framework to empower us to meaningfully reduce the threat of climate change.”
Setting the department on a course to fight climate change is a main leading concern of Del Toro’s duration. He called the issue “existential” for the Navy and Marine Corps.
“If we do not act, as sea levels rise, bases like Norfolk Naval Base and Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will be severely tested in their ability to support their missions,” he wrote in the report. “If temperatures continue to rise, the oceans will get warmer, creating more destructive storms requiring our Fleets and Marine Corps forces to increase their operational tempo to respond.”
Check out the report here.
While the prominent Parris Island and mid-Atlantic marine bases are threatened by environment modification, Pentagon authorities have in fact likewise warned of a warming world’s influence on the armed force’s Arctic and subarctic bases.
The Army launched its own environmental plans in February.
Del Toro also explained wildfires and dry spells in the West, and record-setting heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest, as other signs needing his department’s action.
Climate change-related around the world instability will drive water and food insecurity, in addition to mass migration, which will lead to sailors and Marines starting more humanitarian relief goals, Del Toro specified.
The Department of the Navy’s “Climate Action 2030 ″ strategy seeks to decrease emissions and facility energy needs by increasing carbon pollution-free electrical energy options while assisting the force to prepare to run in possibly unforeseeable future environments.
The Department of the Navy is seeking to cut 5 million metric tons of co2 “or equivalent pollution” each year by 2027, a moving the Navy states would represent taking a million cars and trucks off the highway.
“The [Department of the Navy] will also deploy cyber-secure microgrids or comparable technology to leverage carbon pollution-free power at our bases and installations to support critical missions,” a release announcing the plan states.
Presently, the department has actually granted more than $3 billion in agreements to lower energy intake and greenhouse gas emissions while “increasing energy and water durability” at the United States and abroad bases, according to the report.
