The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will organize a workshop to explore climate security risks in the South Asia region. The overall goal of the workshop will be to inform the U.S. Intelligence Community’s understanding of, and ability to anticipate, the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in the region.
The workshop will apply a systems-oriented conceptual framework that has been developed by the Climate Security Roundtable to organize and drive its climate security analyses across a range of regional and topical contexts. This South Asia regional workshop, specifically, will identify and examine:

• The key climate security questions in the region, and the appropriate bounds (in terms of geographic borders, societal sectors, spatial/ temporal scales, etc.) for analysis in each case;
• The important underlying conditions and processes, external influences, and teleconnections that shape climate security issues in the region;
• The key internal systems, entities, and linkages that determine the evolution of climate security risk within the region, with a focus on cascading and compounding risk, as well as how key risks outside of South Asia can impact the region;
• The critical analytic capacity and capabilities (e.g., data and information systems, tools and methodologies, collaborative relationships, fundamental research, etc.) needed to effectively characterize climate security risk in the region; and,
• The critical tools needed to effectively reduce climate security risks in the region (e.g., adaptation best practices, ways to build resilience, key points of intervention as a climate crises unfolds).
• Workshop activities would include examination of case studies of historical climate security risks that have materialized in the region, as well as scenario development to understand how future climate security risks could unfold.

The planning committee will organize the workshop, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate or identify moderators for the discussions. A proceedings that reports on the presentations and discussions held during this public workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.