Sec. 322. Requirement to update Department of Defense climate change roadmap
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Not later than February 1, 2022, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives an update to the Department of Defense 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Such update shall include an outline of the strategy and implementation plan of the Department to address the current and foreseeable effects of climate change on the mission of the Department of Defense. The strategy and implementation plan required to be included in the update under subsection
(a)shall include— a description of the overarching approach of the Department to climate adaptation and climate mitigation measures; a discussion of the current and foreseeable effects of climate change on— plans and operations, including— military readiness; increased frequency of extreme weather events, including flooding, drought, desertification, wildfires, thawing permafrost, hurricanes, and extreme heat; conflicts or disputes, emerging threats, and instability caused or exacerbated by climate change, including tensions related to drought, famine, infectious disease, geoengineering, energy transitions, extreme weather, migration, and competition for scarce resources; increased demand for Defense Support for Civil Authorities and disaster or humanitarian relief operations; the operating environment of the Arctic and of the strategic and geopolitical implications of a progressively more ice-free Arctic Ocean; and alteration or limitation on operation environments; training and testing, including— changes in land carrying capacity; increased maintenance and repair requirements for equipment and infrastructure; health of military personnel, including mitigation of infectious diseases, heat stress and heat-related illnesses resulting from increasing temperatures; increased dust generation, air pollution, and fire hazards; and maintaining testing and training capacity to support increased operations and civil support missions; built and natural infrastructure, including— military installation resilience, as such term is defined in section 101(e)(8) of title 10, United States Code, of installations both within and outside the United States and its possessions and territories and of the State-owned National Guard installations of the several States; resilience of the air and sea ports of our allies and partners that are critical to the training, deployment, and operations of the armed forces of the United States and its allies and partners; resilience of the deployment system and structure of the Department of Defense and of the United States, including the strategic highway network, the strategic rail network, and designated strategic air and sea ports; best practices for modeling and mitigating risks posed to military installations by increased inundation, erosion, flood, wind, and fire damage; changing energy demand at military installations to include heating and cooling, particularly in communities experiencing grid stress; disruption and competition for reliable energy and water resources; geoengineering and energy transitions; increased maintenance and sustainment costs; damage to natural and constructed infrastructure from thawing permafrost and sea ice; and the effects of climate stress on community support infrastructure, including roads, transportation hubs, and medical facilities; acquisition and supply chain, including— measures to ensure that the current and projected future scale and impacts of climate change are fully considered in the research, development, testing, and acquisition of major weapon systems and of associated supplies and equipment; required alterations of stockpiles; reduced or changed availability and access to materials, equipment, and supplies, including water and food sources; disruptions in fuel availability and distribution; estimated climate security investments required to address foreseeable costs incurred or influenced by climate change for each of the lines of effort in this report, including extreme weather response, over the next 5, 10, and 20 years, with topline estimates and a qualitative discussion of cost drivers for each; and equipment and infrastructure investments required to address a changing Arctic environment; and such other matters as the Secretary determines appropriate; and a list of the ten most concerning existing or emerging conflicts or threats that pose a risk to the security of the United States that may be exacerbated by climate change. In preparing the update to the climate change roadmap as required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consider— climate projections from the Global Change Research Office, National Climate Assessment, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other Federal agencies; and data on, and analysis of, the national security effects of climate prepared by the Climate Security Advisory Council of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence established pursuant to section 120 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3060 ) and by other elements of the intelligence community. The update to the climate change roadmap required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. If the Secretary determines that the inclusion of a classified annex is necessary, the Secretary shall conduct an in-person briefing for Members of the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives by not later than 90 days after date of the submission of the update.
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