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If Climate Change Is An Existential Threat, Why Is The Pentagon Skipping The COP26 Climate Summit At Glasgow?

President Joe Biden speaks to members of his Cabinet in July. The president is sending several senior administration officials, including eight Cabinet members, to COP26 in November.

Defense One: Pentagon to Skip Global Climate Conference, Despite 'Existential Threat' 

Former defense officials called it a “missed opportunity.” 

Defense Department officials will not attend the global climate conference in Scotland that begins Sunday, despite the recent Pentagon report calling climate change an “existential threat” to national security. 

By not attending the conference as part of the presidential delegation, former defense officials said, the Pentagon is giving up the chance to make a statement on the world stage that climate change is important to the American national security enterprise. 

“Given in the last nine or 10 months, the level of public effort that the Defense Department has made...to try to get out in front of this issue, I think it’s a missed opportunity,” said David Titley, a retired rear admiral who served as the oceanographer and navigator of the Navy.

“I’m sure they have their reasons, and they may be great reasons, but my initial reaction is that’s unfortunate. It’s too bad.”  

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WNU editor: The Pentagon may not be going to Glasgow, but almost everyone else in the US government is .... Exclusive: Biden sending 13 cabinet members, high-level officials to UN climate summit in show of force (CNN).



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