MEDIA RELEASE 03/06/2021 Embargoed until 00.01 Friday 4 June G7 Summit: The clock is ticking on the global military fulfilling its responsibility in reaching net-zero Academics, NGOs, activists and creatives support a call for G7 militaries to come clean on their carbon emissions ahead of COP 26 in Glasgow. Tipping Point North South’s Transform … Continue reading G7 Open Letter Media Release
Research Partnership with TNI State of Power 2021: Coercive World
Each year, TNI produces a STATE OF POWER resource on a highly topical issue. TNI, founded in 1974, is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet. The research for COERCIVE WORLD infographics was undertaken by TPNS/Transform Defence and covers military, police, homeland security and prisons around the … Continue reading Research Partnership with TNI State of Power 2021: Coercive World
Our new piece in the latest issue of The Environment magazine
'Smoking guns: how global defence spending hurts the environment' The Environment (May 2021) by CIWEM The Environment pieceDownload
Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2021/reassessing-sipris-military-expenditure-estimate-united-kingdom In November 2020, in the midst of the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 and despite a projected 10.4 per cent decrease in the United Kingdom’s gross domestic product in 2020, the British Government announced a £16.5 billion budget boost for ‘defence’. The realities of this announcement however remain unclear. The definition of what constitutes the UK’s total military … Continue reading Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom
Walden Bello on the US-China strategic confrontation
Presentation at the AEPF Global Military Spending and Global In(security) Webinar, Dec 3, 2020 Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South https://www.facebook.com/walden.bello/posts/10158182198814332 There are great worries today that the conflict between China and the US will not stop at simply being a trade war, that it could at some point spill over into some form … Continue reading Walden Bello on the US-China strategic confrontation
