Energy Security

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U.S. Energy Dependence Undercutting U.S. National Security, Council Task Force Warns

America’s dependence on imported energy increases its strategic vulnerability and constrains its ability to pursue foreign policy and national security objectives, finds a Council-sponsored Independent Task Force. “The lack of sustained attention to energy issues is undercutting U.S. foreign policy and U.S. national security,” says the report.

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Energy Security

Speaker: Tom Vilsack
Presider: Vijay Vaitheeswaran

Watch Governor of Iowa Tom Vilsack discuss U.S. energy security.

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Climate Security: Risks and Opportunities for the Global Economy [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

Speakers: The Rt Hon Margaret Beckett, MP, Jacques Aigrain, and Mark Tercek
Presider: Stephen W. Bosworth

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and two businessmen—Jacques Aigrain from Swiss Re and Mark Tercek from Goldman Sachs—discuss political, economic, and financial risks associated with climate change from a global perspective.

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