‘Summit of the Future: Climate Change, Climate Finance & the Global Military’ has been written to mark the 79th UN General Assembly and the Summit of the Future September 2024.
Ever-rising military spending is an ever-increasing obstacle to progress on all UN development and climate agendas. The global military – in peace and war – is a significant contributor to climate change, and these emissions correlate to ever rising military spending on fossil-fuel reliant hardware.
Increasing militarisation of world affairs is not the answer to climate change – it is at the heart of the problem. There can be no secure nation without a climate-secure planet.
This is why both the Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future (13-20 Sept) and the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice (21-28 Sept) call for runaway military spending as an urgent source to tap for climate finance. This briefing offers up some practical proposals on this.
For all those attending the UN events of September 2024, ‘Summit of the Future: Climate Change, Climate Finance & the Global Military’ not only explains the ways in which the global military (especially the top 20 military spenders and arms sellers) impact on both climate and climate finance, but offers up proposals on how we can reverse this state of affairs at this critical turning point of time in human affairs.
Transform defence for sustainable human safety 