Deborah Burton and Ho-Chih Lin reflect on why we need to put the global arms industry in the climate finance frame. --------- The time is now to put arms industry profiteers and polluters in the climate finance frame. As we write this, the world has been witnessing Israel’s indiscriminate carpet bombing in Gaza. It is … Continue reading The time is now to put arms industry profiteers and polluters in the climate finance frame
Media release: NATO 2% SPENDING GOAL COULD DIVERT $2.6 TRILLION FROM CLIMATE FINANCE BY 2028
NATO’s goal of 2% spending of GDP on the military will accelerate climate breakdown by diverting millions of dollars from climate finance and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, concludes a new report that urgently calls for a ‘climate dividend’ similar to the ‘peace dividend’ that was won with the end of the Cold War.
New article published in Degrowth Journal
We are delighted to be included in the inaugural volume of Degrowth Journal organised as a free, open-access, international, trans-disciplinary, and peer-reviewed journal that focuses on advancing the goals of degrowth. Our article wanted to draw largely unaddressed connections between degrowth and the global military. Placing the military in the degrowth narrative. (2023). In Degrowth journal (Vol. 1). https://degrowthjournal.org/publications/2023-08-21-placing-the-military-in-the-degrowth-narrative/ … Continue reading New article published in Degrowth Journal
10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation
To mark UN International Day of Peace TPNS is releasing its latest publication How to Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety: 10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation.
How the military-industrial complex has captured Australia’s top strategic advisory body
A Declassified Australia investigation has uncovered a casebook example of ‘state-capture’, with the development of deep connections between ASPI, and the world’s largest and most powerful military weapons manufacturers.
