The world has baked for 12 consecutive months in temperatures 1.5C (2.7F) greater than their average before the fossil fuel era, new data shows. Temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record, scientists found, creating a year-long stretch in which the Earth was 1.64C hotter than in preindustrial times. Carlo Buontempo, … Continue reading Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 consecutive months
NATO’s Record Military Spending in 2023 Caused More GHG Emissions than Qatar
Embargoed: 00:01am CET, 9 July As NATO marks its 75th anniversary in Washington D.C. from 9-11 July 2024, new research shows that its record military expenditure of $1.34 trillion produces millions of tonnes of greenhouse emissions and diverts millions of dollars from climate finance. The research briefing, Climate in the Crosshairs,(1) produced by the international … Continue reading NATO’s Record Military Spending in 2023 Caused More GHG Emissions than Qatar
Saudi Arabia / Arab Group/ G77+China Proposal for a sales tax on developed nations’ defence industries as part of a climate finance package
The arms industry finds itself in the climate finance frame ‘At Bonn talks, G77 group floats a 5% sales tax on tech, fashion and defence firms to fund green spending in the Global South’ Climate Home News reported in the first days of the Bonn Climate Conference, the annual mid-year preparatory conference that precedes COP … Continue reading Saudi Arabia / Arab Group/ G77+China Proposal for a sales tax on developed nations’ defence industries as part of a climate finance package
Presenting military emissions and spending to the Degrowth community
It was a pleasure to be part of the Joint Conference of the International Degrowth Research Networks and the European Society for Ecological Economics in Pontevedra, Spain 18 to 21 June 2024. With an attendance of more than 1100 people from 48 different countries, the conference had the participation of academics, activists, students and teachers of secondary … Continue reading Presenting military emissions and spending to the Degrowth community
Bonn Climate Conference attendance + arms industry tax & military spending filtering through
For our work on military emissions and military spending, it has become an important calendar moment and we attended our second Bonn conference in June 2024. We were able to deepen conversations started at previous gatherings (COP, Bonn, CAN International) as well as develop new climate finance conversations. Both military emissions and military spending were widely referenced and the latter gives hope we are making progress in getting it included in the climate finance debate.
Transform defence for sustainable human safety 