This form is intended for the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) to enlist input for the Military Responses to Climate Hazards tracker (MiRCH), documenting the deployment of military and paramilitary personnel and equipment in response to natural hazards exacerbated by climate change, worldwide. 

CCS staff regularly track these incidents based on publicly available information, but we also request your help, given the breadth of this project. Other researchers, journalists, academics, government officials, or members of the public are encouraged to enter information and sourcing on incidents here, which CCS will draw from to supplement its own tracking.

To document such a military deployment, please check that it falls within the definition below, and fill out the form below to the best of your ability (many questions are optional). Thank you!

Scope and Definitions:

This effort includes military and paramilitary deployments in response to all types of natural hazards that climate change is known to make more likely or more intense--such as heatwaves, flooding, drought, extreme precipitation, and storms and hurricanes--even if a scientific study has not yet quantified the role of climate change in a particular incident. Natural disasters largely unrelated to climate change, such as earthquakes or volcanoes, are excluded. This includes direct deployment of military forces, the use of other armed paramilitaries, and the lending of military personnel or equipment to civil authorities, but does not include purely civilian disaster response. Military deployments in response to challenges indirectly contributed to by climate change (such as migration or civil unrest) are not included, nor are deployments related to energy security or the energy transition unconnected to a natural hazard.