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2. Ms. Patton coordinated and served as a moderator during
the September 23-24, 2014, Combatant Command Climate Security
Information Exchange. E. Rebecca Patton, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment,
telephone interview by author, March 2, 2015.
3. Barack H. Obama, State of the Union Address January 20,
2015, (Washington, D.C.: The White House Office of the Press Secretary January 20, 2015), available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/
the-press-office/2015/01/20/remarks-president-state-union-address-january-20-2015 (accessed February 9, 2015).
4. Barack H. Obama, National Security Strategy (Washington,
DC: The White House, February 2015), i.
5. Chuck Hagel, Quadrennial Defense Review, (Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense, March 4, 2014), IV; Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
(Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, June 2014), i.
6. DoD’s Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap serves as DoD’s
strategic department-level Adaptation Plan developed in response to two Presidential Executive Orders (EOs), 2009’s EO
13514 Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic
Performance and 2013’s EO 13653 Preparing the United States for the
Impacts of Climate Change. The in-development DoD Directive will
further operationalize the Adaptation Roadmap strategy. Important
to note that the Roadmap focuses on one of the two ways DoD is
addressing climate change, specifically “adaptation,” versus “mitigation.” Adaptation includes efforts to plan for the changes that are
occurring or expected to occur; while mitigation includes those efforts that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. DoD’s overall Strategic Sus х