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Home Media/Social Media Coverage 2024

★ ‘Climate in the Crosshairs’ Report ★

Guardian

Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/09/nato-military-co2-spending-2023-report

eceee (the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy)

Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report

https://www.eceee.org/all-news/news/natos-2023-military-spending-produced-about-233m-metric-tonnes-of-co2-report/

Turning Point Magazine

The Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis

https://turningpointmag.org/2024/07/03/the-three-dimensions-of-militarism-in-the-climate-crisis

Climate Control Journal

What Is The Amount That Nato Has Spent On Climate Change?

https://climatecontroljournal.com/what-is-the-amount-that-nato-has-spent-on-climate.html

Down to Earth

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/natos-2023-military-spending-produces-emissions-rivaling-entire-countries-report

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/natos-2023-military-spending-produces-emissions-rivaling-entire-countries-report

★ SB60 BONN 2024 ★

Climate Home News

Tax on Arms Industry

Bonn bulletin: Crunch time for climate finance

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/06/10/bonn-bulletin-crunch-time-for-climate-finance/

Eco Newsletter (CAN International)

covers military spend/climate finance and ref TPNS’ “correlation between spending and emissions”

#PAYUP #PAYUP #PAYUP #PAYUp #PAYUP #PAYUP

https://climatenetwork.org/resource/eco-3-sb60/

Scoop NZ

War Vs Climate: Why The UNFCCC COP Process Needs To Address The War Issue

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2406/S00018/war-vs-climate-why-the-unfccc-cop-process-needs-to-address-the-war-issue.htm

Politico

TPNS’ submission to UN Global Stocktake

War, what is it good for? Polluting the climate.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/05/30/war-what-is-it-good-for-polluting-the-climate-00160701

★ March GST / ‘Climate Crossfire’ Report ★

Revolve

The Hidden Costs of Military Expansion on Climate

https://revolve.media/features/the-hidden-costs-of-military-expansion-on-climate

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Home – Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety
- An Introduction to Transform Defence
- Sustainable human safety
The Annual $2 Trillion Spend
Latest
The Global Military and Climate Change
Economics / GND Plus
Briefings, submissions and reports
Move the Money: Five Percent & Excess Profits
The UN: SDGs, UNFCCC & The Global Military
About Us
Film, Video, Popular Culture
Advocacy & Campaign Resources

Global Military, Big Oil & Climate Change

From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos

Reports and briefings

Climate Collateral (2025 update): Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored
Climate Reparations for Military Emissions
Military & conflict-related emissions & climate reparations for Palestine
NATO’S 3.5% Spending Goal: Unsustainable on every count
The Alarming Rise of False Climate Solutions in Africa: The Nuclear Energy Misadventure
What does the global arms race mean for climate action?
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: SDGs vs Rising Military Expenditures
COP29: Why Public Military Spending Matters To Climate Finance Discussions
Summit of the Future: Climate Change, Climate Finance and the Global Military
Overturning the economics of war to deliver a co-operative future and peaceful green prosperity
Climate in the Crosshairs
Excess Profits Tax: It’s time to make arms industry polluters pay
Climate Collateral: Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored at COP28
Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown
How to Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety: 10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation
Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond
Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Advocacy and Outreach Briefing
Climate Collateral: How military spending accelerates climate breakdown
Indefensible The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
Military Emissions, Military Spending and Green New Deals
‘Reset for the 21^st century’: The Global Military and the United Nations
Zero Carbon Peace and Defence
Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions
Degrow the Military Economy
The Five Percent Campaign 2013 Report
Runaway military spending and emissions: an urgent overlooked international development issue
The $1 trillion yellow line that we need to return to
Approaching the $2 trillion redline
The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
You say ‘don’t buy,’I say ‘don’t sell.’ Let’s call the arms trade off
Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security And Defence Policy
A brief introduction to Green New Deal Plus
Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming

Latest News and Posts

TPNS participation at COP30 in Brazil December 7, 2025
(Webinar) Real Costs of the Push to Rearm in Europe and Beyond: Implications for Arms Control, Business and Human Rights, and International Law December 1, 2025
New publications: Report “Climate Reparations for Military Emissions” and Briefing “Climate Collateral (2025 update)” November 13, 2025
New Briefing: Military & Conflict-Related Emissions & Climate Reparations for Palestine September 17, 2025
Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice – Draw the Line September 16, 2025
New report of the UN Secretary-General on the impact of the global increase in military expenditure September 10, 2025
TPNS at Bonn Climate Change Conference (16-26 June 2025) July 10, 2025
Media Release: NATO’s Spending Boom Puts Climate Targets at Risk, New Briefing Warns June 19, 2025
Sharing news from Palestinian colleagues June 8, 2025

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What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. Even after the end of the Cold War, it has been envisioned mostly in military terms. Over the past few years, all we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes… The overriding goal must be human security: providing food,…

― Mikhail Gorbachev

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

― Albert Einstein

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Transform Defence has been developed by Tipping Point North South. Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety is a project comprising a number of elements including the Five Percent Proposal and the case that military spending is an urgent international development issue; the global military’s impact on climate change and human insecurity; the absence in UN processes of the global military’s emissions accounting; and Green New Deal Plus.

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