Worldwide Emerging Environmental Issues Affecting the U.S. Military. November 2009 Report

• Other Authors: FEDERATION OF UN ASSOCIATIONS WASHINGTON DC MILLENNIUM PROJECT
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Meteorology; Military Forces and Organizations; Chemical; Biological and Radiological Warfare; Air Pollution and Control; Water Pollution and Control; Environmental Health and Safety; *ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; *GREENHOUSE EFFECT; *ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES); MONITORING; HEALTH; WATER POLLUTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; MELTING; CADMIUM TELLURIDES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER RESOURCES; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; NONLETHAL WEAPONS; NOISE POLLUTION; COOPERATION; ANTIPERSONNEL MINES; INTERNATIONAL LAW; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHINA; NEGOTIATIONS; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBONS; SEA ICE; GLACIERS; SOLAR PANELS; RIOT CONTROL AGENTS; DESALINATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION; MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN); WARFARE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SOLID WASTES; *MILITARY IMPLICATIONS; *CLIMATE CHANGE; *NANOTECHNOLOGY SAFETY; MILITARY TO MILITARY RELATIONS; WAR CRIMES; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT; ROME STATUTE; NONLETHAL RIOT-CONTROL AGENTS; CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION; NANOPARTICLE WASTEWATER POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA EXCHANGE; MONTREAL PROTOCOL; GENE SYNTHESIS; BIOSECURITY; GEOENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION SITE POLLUTION; FOOD SECURITY; WATER SECURITY; MELTING GLACIERS; RISING SEA LEVELS; CLIMATE REFUGEES; GREENHOUSE GASES; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA528731; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA528731

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Item 1 -- China and U.S. Announce Climate Change Goals; Item 2 -- Changes to War Crimes Proposed for the International Criminal Court; Item 3 -- Increased Calls for Banning Nonlethal Riot-control Agents; Item 4 -- Technological Advances with Environmental Security Implications, including New Technique Helps Reduce Nanoparticle Wastewater Pollution, Evaporation Provides Power in New Desalination System, Increasing Energy Efficiency Technologies, and Software Standards to Connect Data Globally; Item 5 -- Updates on Previously Identified Issues, including New Decisions Adopted for Strengthening the Montreal Protocol, UNECE Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change, International Gene Synthesis Consortium Created for Increasing Biosecurity, United Kingdom and U.S. Legislators Review Geoengineering Proposals, EPA Issues New Regulations on Water Pollution from Construction, Ultrathin Solar Panels Could End Up On the European Union list of Hazardous Materials Due to Cadmium Content, Climate Change (Scientific Evidence and Natural Disasters, Food and Water Security, Health, Melting Glaciers and Sea Ice, Rising Sea Levels, Migration, Adaptation, Climate Modeling, and Post-Kyoto Negotiations), and Nanotechnology Safety Issues; Item 6 -- Reports and Information Suggested for Review, including Climate Change Threats Increasingly Top Security Agendas, European Environment Agency Draws First Map of Europe's Noise Exposure, and Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste.