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Open letter to U.N. Secretary-General H. E. Mr. António Guterres 2024

18th September 2024

Role and responsibility of military expenditure in the climate emergency

Read more Open letter to U.N. Secretary-General H. E. Mr. António Guterres 2024

Open Letter to UN Sec General as we enter 6th month of Russia’s invasion

5th August 2022

Read more Open Letter to UN Sec General as we enter 6th month of Russia’s invasion

Open letter to COP26 Co-Chairs UK and Italy and G20 nations

21 October 2021

Read more Open letter to COP26 Co-Chairs UK and Italy and G20 nations

Open Letter to Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Presidency of G20 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Mr. Luigi Di Maio

25th June 2021

Read more Open Letter to Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Presidency of G20 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Mr. Luigi Di Maio

Open letter to PM Boris Johnson, UK Presidency G7 Summit 2021

3rd June 2021

Read more Open letter to PM Boris Johnson, UK Presidency G7 Summit 2021

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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