Climate Change: Considerations for Geographic Combatant Commands PKSOI Paper | Página 23

that proactive responses to climate change will have
for population security and stability. Both USACESAD and NAVFAC-SE have project planning and
management personnel forward stationed in the Caribbean, and in Central and South America.46 It is critical that all DoD engagements nest with USG policylevel officials that also conduct strategic engagements
as part of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change and IPCC sessions.
Technical Support
Once the combined efforts of DoS, USAID and the
SOUTHCOM staff determine that the USG will support a particular country’s climate change adaptation
efforts, together they will work with the partner nation
to tailor support actions based on if the resiliency target
is a specific localized infrastructure or broader basinwide water resources system. Examples of localized
infrastructure would be Trinidad and Tobago’s oceanside Point Fortin natural gas liquefaction and transfer
facilities or Jamaica’s Goat Island port. An example of
a basin-wide target would be Haiti’s low-lying Cul de
Sac flood basin. DoD and USAID can leverage a fast
growing body of knowledge in support of partner nations. Among the open-source technical resources are
several DoD/USACE technical publications that address climate change considerations and provide both
qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluating
current projects and systems and for planning future
projects and systems to increase their resiliency.47 In
addition to these references, DoD’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is
charged with ensuring DoD has the necessary science
and tools to support climate change-related vulner-

14