John F. Kerry, former Secretary of State and current Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, joined intelligence experts and other stakeholders at a Harvard Kennedy School conference on the geopolitical, intelligence, and national security implications of climate change on Friday.
The half-day conference was co-sponsored by the HKS Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’s Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, and the nonpartisan think tank Center for Climate Change and Security.
The conference titled “Climate Change, Intelligence, and Global Security” was held just after Earth Day and a White House climate summit with 40 world leaders. Along with keynote speaker Kerry, the HKS conference hosted intelligence officers, climate experts, military personnel, and private sector stakeholders, such as the McKinsey Global Institute, to address climate change.
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This event will be open to the public. Advance registration for both sessions is required.
The recent SolarWinds software attack, the debate over Huawei in global 5G networks, and the rise of the Internet of Things makes it increasingly apparent that the international supply chain is enormously vulnerable to attacks by foreign adversaries seeking to subvert and disrupt the critical infrastructure that makes up the backbone of democratic societies.
In a world were financial stability, energy supply, and communications reliability depends on a largely hidden ecosystem of devices, connections, and systems, it is necessary for us to better understand how these foundations of modern life and commerce can be exploited and undermined by adversaries. An insecure supply chain introduces insidious, pervasive risk.