The U.S. Army unveiled its first climate strategy Tuesday to address climate change, and it includes achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within the next three decades.
The service branch, in its efforts against climate change, will try to do so by “optimizing vehicle fuel efficiency and electrification, operational power generation, battery storage, land management, procurement, supply chain resilience, and workforce development,” the report reads.
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“The time to address climate change is now. The effects of climate change have taken a toll on supply chains, damaged our infrastructure, and increased risks to Army Soldiers and families due to natural disasters and extreme weather,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said in a statement.
“The Army must adapt across our entire enterprise and purposefully pursue greenhouse gas mitigation strategies to reduce climate risks,” she added. “If we do not take action now, across our installations, acquisition and logistics, and training, our options to mitigate these risks will become more constrained with each passing year.”
The plan lays out goals for the Army to reach, including a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade, attaining net-zero [greenhouse gas] emissions by 2050, and “proactively [considering] the security implications of climate change in strategy, planning, acquisition supply chain, and programming documents and processes.”
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The Army will work toward the goals with three separate ventures — “Installations will enhance resilience and sustainability by adopting infrastructure and natural environments to climate change risks,” increasing the operational capability while reducing sustainment demand while they will also train to operate in a “climate-altered world.”
The Army decreased its overall installation greenhouse gas emissions by 20% since 2018, per the report.
