To mark the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice (21st-25 Sept 2026), TPNS and Movement for the Abolition of War co-authored an Open Letter to the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Miatta Fahnbulleh. Signed by 23 organisations, the letter addressed the many concerns held by civil society … Continue reading Open Letter to Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Miatta Fahnbulleh
TPNS latest Transform Defence publication ‘Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached’
To mark the Global Week of Action on a Fossil Free Future (14-20 Sept) and the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice (21st-27 Sept), TPNS has released it latest publication ‘Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached’ . The war machines and lucrative arms industries are at the heart of our … Continue reading TPNS latest Transform Defence publication ‘Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached’
The abolition of war – a nail in the coffin of fossil fuels
On 9 July 1955, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein launched the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. Signatories included the great scientific minds of the period and the manifesto was a plea to abandon nuclear weapons but in the only context possible: that of the abolition of war. There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, … Continue reading The abolition of war – a nail in the coffin of fossil fuels
Colleagues in Brazil have written this excellent article for Le Monde Diplomatique
What kind of energy transition and security is the world willing to build? The world has been postponing, year after year, the choice between two types of security: the security that can be bought with weapons and the security that can be bought by preventing climate change from destroying crops, coastal cities, and entire supply chains. … Continue reading Colleagues in Brazil have written this excellent article for Le Monde Diplomatique
A much needed boost for climate hope: the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
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’.
