The DoD Net Zero Climate Change Program Must Be Suspended
By Scott Sturman & Doug Goodman
August 10, 2024
West Point DPW
In 1988 the United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activity. Relying on the IPCC’s Assessment Reports, the 2016 Paris Climate Accords established the goal of achieving by 2050 a balance between CO2 emissions and sequestration, referred to as NetZero.
In January 2021 President Biden issued Executive Order 14008 calling on all federal agencies, including DoD, to prioritize climate change in all strategy, planning, and programming activities. In September 2021 the DoD issued its “Climate Adaptation Plan,” followed in April 2023 by the “Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” where the Net Zero goal was addressed.
The Department of Defense’s Climate Adaptation Plan accepts the IPCC's Assessment Reports as its foundation for recommending mitigation programs without question or critical analysis. Committing hundreds of billions of dollars to climate change programs that are generated by a politically motivated international committee is negligent, damaging to national security, and puts the lives of members of the armed forces in needless jeopardy by resorting to unproven and unreliable technologies.
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