Climate Change

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’.

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.