Too Much and Never Enough: Climate Change and Water Insecurity
March 11, 2021 @ 7:00PM — 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Join us and Former Ambassador Kenneth C. Brill to discuss how climate change and water scarcity will impact international relations in the 21st century.
National and international security, stability, and prosperity will face novel challenges in the coming decades. The rivalry between the “great powers” (U.S., China, and Russia), as well as between regional states, will remain a feature of 21st Century international relations. But novel transnational issues like climate change and water insecurity will establish a new and crucial context in which rivalries between states play out.
Joining us to talk about these new challenges is Ambassador (ret.) Kenneth C. Brill. Brill was a career Foreign Service Officer whose overseas posts were in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. His domestic assignments included African and Middle Eastern issues, acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES), and staff jobs for senior State Department policy officials.
Brill also served as Ambassador to Cyprus for President Clinton and Ambassador to the IAEA and the UN Office in Vienna for President George W. Bush. In his final Foreign Service assignment, he was asked by the first Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, to establish and lead the U.S. National Counterproliferation Center, an organization providing strategic leadership to the U.S. Intelligence Community in countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and preventing WMD terrorism. After retiring from the Foreign Service he has worked with non-partisan NGOs in various capacities on issues ranging from nuclear security and strengthening America's diplomacy to fragile states and climate change.
In this live webinar event, Ambassador (ret.) Kenneth C. Brill will discuss:
- How is climate change is producing water insecurity?
- What are the various forms that water insecurity can take?
- What regions globally are most prone to experiencing water insecurity?
- What are the long term implications of growing water insecurity?
- How are these issues are being addressed currently?
- What more can be done to manage water-related challenges to stability and prosperity?
Thank you to our sponsors: The World Affairs Councils of America, The American Academy of Diplomacy, AquiSense Technologies, & Hamilton Mill