Report: GAO: Feds Must Prepare for Climate Change

These 2 articles (here and here) discuss a GAO Report: Feds Must Prepare for Climate Change. A report by the Government Accountability Office called on federal agencies to prepare for how climate change may fuel conflicts.

A federal watchdog this week called on the the State Department to once again start planning for how warming temperatures, rising seas, severe droughts and other impacts of climate change will drive human migration.

Since President Donald Trump took office in 2017, three agencies charged with predicting and preparing for new developments overseas – the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Defense Department – have stopped accounting for how climate change may fuel migration and, in turn, conflict, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Thursday.

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