The United States (U.S.) Navy is raising its bases, using early storm warning systems, and increasingly power its missions with the sun, instead of fossil fuels.
Just like other organisations, whether they are commercial firms or the U.S. military, have not only started to think about their carbon footprints but also the changes in their own physical environments which are already taking place as a result of the build-up of our carbon dioxide and other ways gases in the atmosphere.
The Navy is also investing in massive amounts of solar to power their bases. It is really about mission readiness and the resilience of their bases. With climate change, the Navy may encounter more storms that are intensive, and it is important to invest in electricity that is not going to knock out the power grids which supplies their bases. Hence, they are investing in some of these power sources because of their distributed nature—the fact that they can produce power on site and not have to rely on long distance generating lines.
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Source: Harvard Business Review, 18 August 2017