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Degrow the Military Economy

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A modified version of this paper is published in the Degrowth Journal.

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  • Home – Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety
    • An Introduction to Transform Defence
    • Sustainable human safety
  • The Annual $2 Trillion Spend
    • Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
    • The Defence Industry
      • Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
      • The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
      • Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
    • Climate Collateral (2022)
    • State of Power 2021: Coercive World
  • Latest
  • The Global Military and Climate Change
    • Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond
    • Indefensible: The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
    • Global Military Spending, Conflict And Climate Change: A Snapshot
    • Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
  • Economics / GND Plus
    • Green New Deal Plus
      • GND Plus in a Post Covid-19 world
      • Military Emissions, Military Spending & GND
    • Five Percent and Universal Basic Income
    • UBI, defence spending and coronavirus
    • Degrow the Military Economy
      • Overturning the economics of war to deliver a co-operative future and peaceful green prosperity
  • Briefings, submissions and reports
    • Archive
    • Submissions
    • Relevant work by others
  • Move the Money: Five Percent & Excess Profits
    • The Five Percent Proposal
    • Don’t Buy Don’t Sell  
    • Excess Profits Tax: It’s time to make arms industry polluters pay
    • Degrow the Military Economy
      • Overturning the economics of war to deliver a co-operative future and peaceful green prosperity
    • Reports and Briefings
    • Videos
      • It seems impossible until it’s done
      • Global military, big oil and climate change
  • The UN: SDGs, UNFCCC & The Global Military
    • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: SDGs vs Rising Military Expenditures
    • Military Emissions and the UNFCCC: Report and Roadmap
    • Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions
    • What is Zero Carbon Peace and Defence
    • COP Conferences
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    • Team and Advisors
    • Funders
    • How to Donate
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    • Movie: We Are Many
    • #MLKGlobal
    • Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming
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Global Military, Big Oil & Climate Change

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

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Reports and briefings

  1. Climate Collateral (2025 update): Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored
  2. Climate Reparations for Military Emissions
  3. Military & conflict-related emissions & climate reparations for Palestine
  4. NATO’S 3.5% Spending Goal: Unsustainable on every count
  5. The Alarming Rise of False Climate Solutions in Africa: The Nuclear Energy Misadventure
  6. What does the global arms race mean for climate action?
  7. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: SDGs vs Rising Military Expenditures
  8. COP29: Why Public Military Spending Matters To Climate Finance Discussions
  9. Summit of the Future: Climate Change, Climate Finance and the Global Military
  10. Overturning the economics of war to deliver a co-operative future and peaceful green prosperity
  11. Climate in the Crosshairs
  12. Excess Profits Tax: It’s time to make arms industry polluters pay
  13. Climate Collateral: Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored at COP28
  14. Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown
  15. How to Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety: 10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation
  16. Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond
  17. Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Advocacy and Outreach Briefing
  18. Climate Collateral: How military spending accelerates climate breakdown
  19. Indefensible The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
  20. Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
  21. Military Emissions, Military Spending and Green New Deals
  22. ‘Reset for the 21st century’: The Global Military and the United Nations
  23. Zero Carbon Peace and Defence
  24. Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions
  25. Degrow the Military Economy
  26. The Five Percent Campaign 2013 Report
  27. Runaway military spending and emissions: an urgent overlooked international development issue
  28. The $1 trillion yellow line that we need to return to
  29. Approaching the $2 trillion redline
  30. The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
  31. Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
  32. Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
  33. You say ‘don’t buy,’I say ‘don’t sell.’ Let’s call the arms trade off
  34. Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security And Defence Policy
  35. A brief introduction to Green New Deal Plus
  36. 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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