Climate change is upending NATO's operations

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NATO is grappling with how climate change is altering its bases and threatening troops' health, while monitoring foes' online disinformation campaigns.

The 75-year-old security alliance has unique capabilities to analyze and prepare for the challenges that a warming world poses.

The analysis shows that NATO allies are already experiencing climate change effects in the form of extreme weather events, including floods, heat waves and wildfires. It also cites 29 international military deployments in 2023 to respond to climate-related emergencies in 14 NATO countries, such as a dozen allies that helped Greece fight wildfires that year.alliance's military forces will have to contend with more extreme weather and climate conditions.

It cites an uptick in Russian disinformation tied to the European green energy transition on social media and on online news sites. Russia, a major producer of oil and gas, has an interest in slowing the transition to renewable energy sources.

 

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