Global movement against new nuclear power plants

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  Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) and Tipping Point North South co-hosted a one-day hybrid training to build the capacity of Nigerian journalists to effectively report on why nuclear power plants are a false solution to the energy deficit in Africa. The event was well attended by journalists across the media spectrum who came to listen to … Continue reading Global movement against new nuclear power plants

A much needed boost for climate hope: the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels

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Our round-up of the historic Santa Marta Conference, with special attention to our issue – military spending. 

TPNS was accredited to the conference as a virtual attendee, was a member of the content and demands working group and made a 2 page submission on the War Machine and Arms Industry as part of the civil society consultation seeking responses to ‘barriers’ and ‘solutions’. The TPNS submission included the call for ‘the creation of a working group to investigate routes by which nations can agree on the universal, equitable redirection of military spending to support Global Just Transition Fund’.

The Double Dividend: How Reducing Military Spending Can Finance a Just Transition

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Launched at the Santa Marta Conference in Colombia. The Double Dividend from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative makes the case that reducing military expenditure is one of the most significant – and most politically avoided – levers available to finance a just global transition away from fossil fuels.