Council on Strategic Risks

The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is a non-partisan institute of The Council on Strategic Risks with a team and distinguished Advisory Board of security and military experts. CCS envisions a climate-resilient world which recognizes that climate change threats to security are significant and unprecedented, and acts to address those threats in a manner that is commensurate to their scale, consequence and probability. To further this goal, CCS facilitates policy development processes and dialogues, provides analysis, conducts research, communicates to the public, and acts as a resource hub in the climate and security field. 

The Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons (The Nolan Center) is a non-partisan institute of the CSR that explores threat reduction opportunities related to the development, diffusion and use of strategic weapons in a challenging security landscape. A team of experts, inspired by the pioneering work and philosophy of the late Janne E. Nolan, launched the Nolan Center with a recognition that nuclear, biological, chemical and other strategic weapons threats are rising both due to direct changes in policies and practices globally, and as a result of increasing stress on international security institutions and norms. As strategic weapons threats rise, the Nolan Center is committed to developing achievable risk-reducing solutions.

The Converging Risks Lab (CRL) is a research and policy development-oriented program designed to study converging, cross-sectoral risks in a rapidly-changing world. The CRL brings together experts from within CSR’s distinct institutes, and from multiple sectors of the security community, to ask forward-thinking questions about these converging risks, and to develop anticipatory solutions.