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    • The poorest are always hardest hit
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    • Syria and Yemen: the human toll
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  • The Five Percent Proposal
    • A short introduction
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    • Full Report (2013)
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Today marks UN International Peace Day

Posted on September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 by TPNS

To coincide with this and the UN General Assembly meeting September 14-27, Tipping Point North South’s Transform Defence project publishes its updated briefing

Posted in NewsTagged Climate Change, UN, United Nations

The UN Security Council and Climate Change

Posted on July 27, 2021 by TPNS

In June 2021, Security Council Report (SCR) published its first research report on this issue, The UN Security Council and Climate Change, which traces the evolution of Council engagement on this topic.  Read more.

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  • Home – Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety
  • The Annual $2 Trillion Spend
    • Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money (New Report)
    • The Defence Industry
      • Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
      • The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
      • Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
    • State of Power 2021: Coercive World
  • Latest
  • The Global Military and Climate Change
    • Indefensible: The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security (New Report)
    • Green New Deal Plus
      • GND Plus in a Post Covid-19 world
      • Resources
    • Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
  • Economics
    • Five Percent and Universal Basic Income
    • UBI, defence spending and coronavirus
  • Briefings, submissions and reports
    • Archive
    • Submissions
    • Relevant work by others
  • Runaway Military Spending & Emissions: A Development Issue
    • The poorest are always hardest hit
      • Across the board – redirecting 5% funds
      • Debt, Tax & War on Drugs
      • SDG 16 is not good enough
    • Syria and Yemen: the human toll
    • Military Spend & Africa
    • The need for an international campaign
    • TPNS Submission to Labour Party
    • TPNS Position Paper Lab Conf 2018
  • The Global Military and the United Nations
    • What is Carbon Neutral Peace and Defence
  • About Us
    • Team and Advisors
    • Funders
    • How to Donate
    • Social Media
    • Contact
  • Film, Video, Popular Culture
    • Movie: We Are Many
    • #MLKGlobal
    • Videos
      • It seems impossible until it’s done
      • Introduction and Issues
      • Israel’s global military and security reach
    • Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming
  • The Five Percent Proposal
    • A short introduction
    • The 5% Formula: What is it?
    • Full Report (2013)
    • Report (2013): Executive summary
    • Factsheet
    • Reports and Briefings

The 5% Proposal: Introduction and Issues

Reports and briefings

  1. Indefensible The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
  2. Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
  3. ‘Reset for the 21st century’: The Global Military and the United Nations
  4. The Five Percent Campaign 2013 Report
  5. Runaway military spending and emissions: an urgent overlooked international development issue
  6. The $1 trillion yellow line that we need to return to
  7. Approaching the $2 trillion redline
  8. The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
  9. Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
  10. Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
  11. You say ‘don’t buy,’I say ‘don’t sell.’ Let’s call the arms trade off
  12. Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security And Defence Policy
  13. A brief introduction to Green New Deal Plus
  14. Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming

Latest News and Posts

  • COP26 Open Letter Media Release October 21, 2021
  • Dereliction of Duty October 9, 2021
  • Doubly Unsafe : Our nuclear weapons bases ‘set to flood’ October 8, 2021
  • Today marks UN International Peace Day September 21, 2021
  • Unforgiveable September 10, 2021
  • The UN Security Council and Climate Change July 27, 2021
  • G20 Open Letter Media Release June 22, 2021
  • G7 Open Letter Media Release June 3, 2021
  • Research Partnership with TNI State of Power 2021: Coercive World June 1, 2021

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What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. Even after the end of the Cold War, it has been envisioned mostly in military terms. Over the past few years, all we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes… The overriding goal must be human security: providing food, … Continue reading Mikhail Gorbachev

― Mikhail Gorbachev

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

― Albert Einstein


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Transform Defence has been developed by Tipping Point North South. Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety is a project comprising a number of elements including the Five Percent Proposal and the case that military spending is an urgent international development issue; the global military’s impact on climate change and human insecurity; the absence in UN processes of the global military’s emissions accounting; and Green New Deal Plus. 

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