Worldwide Emerging Environmental Issues Affecting the U.S. Military. January 2007 Report

Abstract

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon took office on January 1, 2007 and listed addressing global climate change as a top priority during all of his major meetings, including his first press conference at the UN, his meeting with President George Bush, and public talks in Washington and with the EU leaders in Brussels. Climate change also topped the agenda of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, where Tony Blair said that addressing climate change was the "supreme expression of interdependence." President Bush for the first time included the issue in his State of the Union address, the new Democratic leadership in the US Congress has it among its top priorities, and corporations are forming relationships with environmental groups. Hence, it is clear that the international politics of climate change could have dramatic changes over the next several years.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA528470

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Detectors
  • Eastern Europe
  • Environment
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Health Services
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • Public Health
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Polar and Arctic Studies