From 1993-2001, Sherri Goodman served as the first US Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security, making her the Pentagon’s Chief Environmental Officer. She then went on to help deliver influential reports that helped to establish climate change as a national security threat in the US.
Goodman is now Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, and a Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center. Bertie spoke to her about her new book, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security.
Further reading:
- Click here to buy Threat Multiplier from Island Press.
- ‘A career spent trying to make the military care about climate change‘, The Washington Post, August 2024
- ‘The US Department of Defense’s Role in Integrating Climate Change into Security Planning‘, New Security Beat, May 2024
- ‘Changing climates for Arctic security‘, The Wilson Quaterly, 2017
- National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, 2007