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
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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.
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
To implement the anti-vax campaign, the Defense Department overrode strong objections from top U.S. diplomats in Southeast Asia at the time, Reuters found. Sources involved in its planning and execution say the Pentagon, which ran the program through the military’s psychological operations center in Tampa, Florida, disregarded the collateral impact that such propaganda may have on … Continue reading Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
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