Planning for a Yale Program in National Security, Intelligence, and the Environment

Being able to provide intelligence and security communities with the expertise they need to address climate change and other environmental risks will have long-term effects on efforts to develop planetary solutions to such challenges. However, there are barriers to developing a program that links these critical areas. One key challenge is that it requires bringing together topical expertise residing across academic disciplines with the practical expertise residing in the intelligence and national security communities. This project will begin building the bridges necessary to design a renowned program connecting these fields. In the long term, the aim is to train students at Yale for interdisciplinary careers where they can integrate sophisticated thinking about global environmental challenges into the daily work of the national security and intelligence communities.