Download or read book Department of the Air Force Climate Action Plan written by United States. Department of the Air Force. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Energy, Installations, and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is reshaping the increasingly complex global security environment and the Department of the Air Force must adapt and respond to that threat. The department will address the challenges and risks presented by climate change through the implementation of three climate priorities: (1) Maintain air and space dominance in the face of climate risks; (2) Make climate-informed decisions; and (3) Optimize energy use and pursue alternative energy sources. By maintaining air and space dominance in the face of climate risks, making climate-informed decisions, and optimizing energy use and pursuing alternative energy sources, the department will prove resilient to the effects of climate change and preserve a combat-credible force that can compete, deter, and win.
Download or read book Planning for Climate Change written by Jason A. Dalpias and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Air Force does not currently have a formal climate change program or strategy and this presents a serious limitation to effectively planning for future climate change. The purpose of this research is to present possible future climate change scenarios and provide recommendations that would enable the Air Force to effectively and appropriately plan for future climate change. This research seeks to answer one primary question concerning global climate change and its potential future impacts on the Air Force: How can the Air Force effectively assess and prepare for the potential future implications of global climate change? A hybrid combination of the problem/solution and scenario planning methodologies is used in this research to examine how the Air Force can effectively assess and prepare for the potential future implications of global climate change. Analysis of driving forces and current practices are used to generate proposed solutions in the form of recommendations. This research concludes that the US Navy has implemented an effective climate change program which provides a replicable role model and great starting point for the development of an Air Force climate change program. It is recommended that the Air Force take steps to establish a formal climate change program including creating a Climate Change Senior Focus Group, developing a climate change strategy, assessing installations for climate change impacts, establishing a climate change office, and investing in further climate change research."--Abstract.
Download or read book United States Air Force Energy Strategic Plan written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pentagon Climate Change and War written by Neta C. Crawford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War shows how the U.S. economy and military together have created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency. This cycle has shaped U.S. military doctrine and, over the past fifty years, has driven the mission to protect access to Persian Gulf oil. Crawford shows that even as the U.S. military acknowledged and adapted to human-caused climate change, it resisted reporting its own greenhouse gas emissions. Examining the idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” in national security, she argues that the United States faces more risk from climate change than from lost access to Persian Gulf oil—or from most military conflicts. The most effective way to cut military emissions, Crawford suggests provocatively, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy, which would enable the United States to reduce the size and operations of the military.
Download or read book The Climate Change Action Plan written by Bill Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Draft Climate Adaptation Plan written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Acquisition and Sustainment and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) has identified climate change as a critical national security issue and threat multiplier (DOD 2014a) and top management challenge (DOD 2020a). Climate change will continue to amplify operational demands on the force, degrade installations and infrastructure, increase health risks to our service members, and could require modifications to existing and planned equipment. The Department must take bold steps to accelerate adaptation to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change. These adaptation efforts must align with our strategic objectives and mission requirements, ensuring that our military can deter aggression and defend the nation under all conditions. DOD will build upon previous work (see inside back cover). Other DOD actions include scientific and engineering research to understand adaptation requirements, new policies and guidance, improved construction codes and standards, tools to assess and evaluate climate exposure at installations, and a requirement for comprehensive installation master planning. The Department is responding to climate change in two ways: adaptation to enhance resilience to the effects of climate change; and mitigation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Download or read book Department of the Air Force Long Range Plan for the Reserve Forces of the United States Air Force written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Climate Action Planning written by Michael R. Boswell and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is a global problem, but the problem begins locally. Cities consume 75% of the world's energy and emit 80% of the world's greenhouse gases. Changing the way we build and operate our cities can have major effects on greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, communities across the U.S. are responding to the climate change problem by making plans that assess their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and specify actions they will take to reduce these emissions. This is the first book designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop Climate Action Plans. CAPs are strategic plans that establish policies and programs for mitigating a community's greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. They typically focus on transportation, energy use, and solid waste, and often differentiate between community-wide actions and municipal agency actions. CAPs are usually based on GHG emissions inventories, which indentify the sources of emissions from the community and quantify the amounts. Additionally, many CAPs include a section addressing adaptation-how the community will respond to the impacts of climate change on the community, such as increased flooding, extended drought, or sea level rise. With examples drawn from actual plans, Local Climate Action Planning guides preparers of CAPs through the entire plan development process, identifying the key considerations and choices that must be made in order to assure that a plan is both workable and effective.
Download or read book The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War written by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.
Download or read book Air Force Handbook 1 written by U. S. Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook implements AFPD 36-22, Air Force Military Training. Information in this handbook is primarily from Air Force publications and contains a compilation of policies, procedures, and standards that guide Airmen's actions within the Profession of Arms. This handbook applies to the Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard. This handbook contains the basic information Airmen need to understand the professionalism required within the Profession of Arms. Attachment 1 contains references and supporting information used in this publication. This handbook is the sole source reference for the development of study guides to support the enlisted promotion system. Enlisted Airmen will use these study guide to prepare for their Promotion Fitness Examination (PFE) or United States Air Force Supervisory Examination (USAFSE).
Download or read book Facility Design and Planning written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States written by U.S. Global Change Research Program and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
Download or read book Promoting the Dialogue written by Will Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change could have significant implications for U.S. air missions, which are critical to America's ability to protect the homeland, project power and ensure access to the global commons. In the short term, the Air Force and Navy are determining how to consider climate change in their energy strategies, both to ensure more dependable access to and more efficient use of fuel, and to meet energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction requirements set by the president, Congress, Department of Defense and state governments. In the mid to long term, climate change has the potential to affect air forces more directly by changing operating and strategic environments. Currently, however, the air forces are split in how they consider the short- and long-term implications of climate change and how they prioritize energy and climate change concerns. In this working paper, the author synthesizes how America's air forces are considering climate change, identifies the role energy concerns play in the services' decision-making calculations and offers recommendations on how to better integrate energy security and climate change concerns into near- and long-term strategic planning.
Download or read book Implementing the President s Climate Action Plan written by United States. Congress. Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress has provided DOE with broad legal authority that can be used to address climate change. DOE will play a crucial role in executing the President's Climate Action Plan. The Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change encourages the Secretary of Energy to consider the 20 recommendations presented in this report as he implements the President's plan. Strengthening energy efficiency standards and programs, accelerating the development and deployment of low-carbon energy technologies, modernizing the electric grid, and fully evaluating the climate change impacts of major energy infrastructure projects would reduce carbon pollution while saving consumers money and creating jobs.
Download or read book Management Action Plan MAP Guidebook written by United States. Air Force. Environmental Restoration Program and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implications of Climate Change for Department of the Air Force Missions and Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research conducted within RAND Project AIR FORCE for the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and more broadly across RAND offers insights about climate change and its implications for military operations and other contexts. This compilation of multidisciplinary climate research can help answer a variety of questions that are relevant to DAF leaders and other stakeholders as they work to put DAF strategy into action.
