TPNS latest Transform Defence publication ‘Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached’

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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

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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 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, knowledge, … 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

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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

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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’.

The Double Dividend: How Reducing Military Spending Can Finance a Just Transition

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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.