Climate and readiness understanding climate vulnerability of U.S. joint force readiness

This report documents research and analysis conducted as part of a project titled estimating impact of climate change on force readiness. The purpose of the project was to identify and build analytic capabilities to describe the relationship between selected climate hazards and joint force readiness in selected theaters of operation. 

The key findings from the report include:

• Climate and readiness are understood and studied by separate communities
• Climate risk is not currently integrated with readiness measurement or reporting
• The climate readiness framework can provide a useful structure for understanding readiness vulnerability to climate risk
• The full impact of climate change on readiness requires consideration of all climate hazard pathways in aggregate
• Information beyond hazard representation in pathways is required to understand the vulnerability of readiness to climate