Germany and the Netherlands will organize a workshop on "Environmental future outlooks and their military implications" at the NBC School of the German Armed Forces in Sonthofen, Germany, from 9 -11 February. The event is organized under the umbrella of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Committee and with the participation of Allied Command Transformation (ACT).

For three days NATO experts as well as participants from Defence Ministries and other institutions will look at future environmental developments and trends and their direct implications for strategic military planning. The discussions will include findings of the "Multiple Futures Project 2030" that has been conducted by ACT in 2009 with the aim to enhance the Alliance's understanding of the complex new security challenges and its capacity to deal with threats across the full spectrum of conflicts.

While the consequences and implications of environmental changes for the tasks of the Armed Forces are currently being studied by individual nations, there has been little exchange of this knowledge among NATO Member and Partner countries until now.

Some of the objectives of the workshop are to establish a repository of available studies on the future environmental situation, compare the contents of the national studies, establish similarities and differences and create a network of experts and organizations.

The outcome of the discussions will serve as a basis for future long-term defence planning. They will also help to evaluate existing long term defence plans, influence concept and strategy development and improve training and threat analysis efforts, both on a national level as well as in the NATO context.

Source: NATO News

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