The Trump administration will drop climate change from a list of global threats in a new National Security Strategy the president is due to unveil on Monday. That stance represents a sharp change from the Obama administration’s NSS, which placed climate change as one of the main dangers facing the nation and made building international consensus on containing global warming a national security priority. The exclusion of climate change as a national security threat appears however to conflict with views previously expressed by the defense secretary, James Mattis. “Climate change is not identified as a national security threat but climate and the importance of the environment and environmental stewardship are discussed,” a senior administration official said. Officials said the new NSS was based on Trump’s previous speeches on national security and foreign policy.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2017 09:56 UTC