The following essay was written by one of our founding members, Giancarlo Da-Ré. It was recently awarded first place in the Masters/PhD category for NATO’s Safer Tomorrow: Security Starts with You(th) competition.              NATO is facing increasingly complex threats exacerbated by climate change. Severe environmental events can increase instability and fuel conflicts that threaten NATO’s ability to fulfil its core tasks of collective defence, crisis management, and cooperative security. NATO is uniquely placed to enhance stability via early warning system information for climate risk and resilience intelligence. I propose for NATO to use its procurement power to promote the adoption of unmanned, green technologies for surveillance and early warning systems that improve response times and increase NATO presence in geographically challenging environments.