Shaun Donovan, Office of Management and Budget director, told the audience at the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit that failure to adapt to climate change can compromise global economies and security.

Donovan’s call for global collective action toward resilience amid climate change builds on the Paris Agreement signed in December 2015, according to a White House press release published Friday.

“In Paris, we mobilized with the recognition that each ton of CO2 matters, not whose smokestack is implicated,” Donovan said.

“And this morning we gather to reaffirm that: Mitigation of emissions is not the only shared challenge; adapting to the impacts of climate change also demands collective action.”

The OMB director further cited climate change scenarios that could impact world economies and security such as possible floods in Wall Street that could affect global commerce and the drought in Syria that contributed to political unrest.

Donovan also highlighted the U.S. government’s efforts to support worldwide adaptation to climate change including the commitment to contribute $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund.

He added the U.S. aims to support the disaster readiness of at-risk countries through scientific and technological initiatives like climate data and early-warning systems.

Defense intelligence undersecretary Marcel Lettre has called for intelligence agencies to increase their collaborations with goals that include increased agility and integration, GovExec reported Friday.

Charles Clark writes Lettre told agency and industry professionals at a Intelligence and National Security Alliance banquet that he also urges the next administration to standardize the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise data sharing effort.

Lettre said the ICITE project is set to go official around the end of President Barack Obama’s term and expand from six intelligence agencies toward to the military services as well, according to the report.

He added that the IC currently seeks new technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and miniaturization to help counter threats in support of DoD’s third offset strategy, Clark reports.

Lettre also highlighted the importance of targeting innovation with industry and added that DoD has already reached out to industrial partners to share technical expertise, FCW reported Friday.

Aisha Chowdhry writes that the IC also works to drive dialogue with Silicon Valley and accelerate the procurement process.

“We need to be thinking very creatively [about] how to access that innovation in a way [that] reflects the need for agility and flexibility and adaptability that’s going to be necessary,” Lettre said at the event, according to the report.

The Energy Department plans to award up to $90 million in funds to support the construction of biorefineries as part of the White House’s carbon emission reduction efforts.

DOE said Friday it will make the award under the Project Development for Pilot and Demonstration Scale Manufacturing of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biopower program.

The program aims to support the establishment of bioenergy facilities that will work to turn domestic biomass feedstocks into diesel, gasoline, plastics and chemicals through the integration of pretreatment processes and convergence platforms.

“The domestic bio-industry could play an important part in the growing clean energy economy and in reducing American dependence on imported oil,” said Lynn Orr, DOE undersecretary for science and energy.

“This funding opportunity will support companies that are working to advance current technologies and help them overcome existing challenges in bioenergy so the industry can meet its full potential,” Orr added.

DOE said it aims to set up more than three commercial plants in the next 12 years through the funding opportunity.