The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop to explore climate security risks in the Central America region. The overall goal of the workshop will be to inform the U.S. Intelligence Community's understanding of, and ability to anticipate, the contributions of climate change to risks to U.S. national security interests in the region.

The workshop will apply an integrative framework, previously developed by the Climate Security Roundtable, that applies a systems perspective to analyzing climate security across a range of regional and topical contexts. This Central America regional workshop, specifically, will identify and examine:

• The key climate security questions in the region, in the context of U.S. national interests, and the appropriate bounds (in terms of geographic borders, societal sectors, spatial/ temporal scales, etc.) for analysis in each case.
• The key natural and human systems, processes, and interactions that connect climate change to national security outcomes. These include underlying conditions; external influences and stressors; internal systems; and other factors that shape the evolution of climate security risk in 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 assess and anticipate climate security risk in the region.
• 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.