Reports and Briefings

Military- & conflict-related emissions & climate reparations for Palestine (09/2025)

NATO’S 3.5% Spending Goal: Unsustainable on every count (06/2025)

The Alarming Rise of False Climate Solutions in Africa: The Nuclear Energy Misadventure (06/2025)

The carbon footprint of EU’s defence spurge, euobserver (05/2025)

What does the global arms race mean for climate action? (04/2025)

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: SDGs vs Rising Military Expenditures (04/2025)

COP29: Why Public Military Spending Matters To Climate Finance Discussions (11/2024)

Summit of the Future: Climate Change, Climate Finance and the Global Military (09/2024)

Overturning the economics of war to deliver a co-operative future and peaceful green prosperity, Working Notes by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (09/2024)

Climate in the Crosshairs (07/2024)

Excess Profits Tax: It’s time to make arms industry polluters pay (06/2024)

Climate Collateral: Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored at COP28 (12/2023)

Climate crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown (10/2023)

Placing the military in the degrowth narrative, Degrowth Journal (08/2023)

Climate Collateral: How military spending accelerates climate breakdown (11/2022)

How to Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety: 10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation (09/2022)

Military Emissions, Military Spending & Green New Deals (09/2022)

Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond (06/2022)

Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Advocacy and Outreach Briefing (06/2022)

Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions (05/2022)

What has global military spending and emissions got to do with development? Rather a lot., Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power blog (03/2022)

The Global Military and the United Nations (09/2021)

Smoking guns: how global defence spending hurts the environment, The Environment magazine by CIWEM (05/2021)

Indefensible The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security (12/2020)

Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money (12/2020)

The Five Percent Proposal Full Report 2013

The Five Percent Campaign: A Short Introduction (2013, updated 03/2016) [pdf]

The Five Percent Campaign: Executive Summary (2013, updated 03/2016) [pdf]

Why runaway global military spending is an international development issue (02/2017)

The $1 trillion yellow line that we need to return to (02/2016)

Approaching the $2 trillion redline (01/2016)

The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and Love the F-35 Lightning Jet (03/2016; revised 09/2020)

Through The Looking Glass: BAE Systems, Corporate Social Responsibility and war, insecurity and climate change (05/2019; revised 09/2020)

Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship   (04/2019; revised 09/2020)

Don’t Buy Don’t Sell in the Trump era (04/2017)

Don’t Buy Don’t Sell: Germany – Turkey (04/2018)

You say ‘don’t buy,’ I say ‘don’t sell.’ Let’s call the arms trade off (07/2019; revised 09/2020)

Climate Change, EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy (09/2019)

A brief introduction to Green New Deal Plus (06/2019; revised 09/2020)

Green New Deal Plus in a Post Covid-19 world (12/2020)

A New Economics & New Military Spending Agenda (updated 01/2018)

Universal Basic Income & Five Percent (04/2016)

UBI, defence spending and coronavirus (03/2020)

Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming (05/2015)

All news and blog posts

(in chronological order)

• TPNS participation at COP30 in Brazil
• (Webinar) Real Costs of the Push to Rearm in Europe and Beyond: Implications for Arms Control, Business and Human Rights, and International Law
• New publications: Report “Climate Reparations for Military Emissions” and Briefing “Climate Collateral (2025 update)”
• New Briefing: Military & Conflict-Related Emissions & Climate Reparations for Palestine
• Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice – Draw the Line
• New report of the UN Secretary-General on the impact of the global increase in military expenditure 
• TPNS at Bonn Climate Change Conference (16-26 June 2025)
• Media Release: NATO’s Spending Boom Puts Climate Targets at Risk, New Briefing Warns
• Sharing news from Palestinian colleagues
• Guardian News – Military Emissions
• Gaza: Owen Jones does not – rightly – hold back
• “Climate Change is a War”
• Nature: Rising military spending jeopardizes climate targets
• NAKBA 77
• EU Observer Op Ed: The carbon footprint of EU’s defence spurge
• What does the global arms race mean for climate action?
• Nature: Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation
• Submission to UNODA call for papers on ‘the impact of the global increase in military expenditure on the achievement of the SDGs’
• Sharing this year’s news & progress that is bittersweet
• The SIPRI Top 100 Arms Producing and Military Services Companies, 2023
• ICJ: State of Palestine Oral Statement on Military Emissions
• TPNS Participation at COP29
• Presentation for Green Party (USA) Webinar on Degrowth
• Finance trips up nature talks
• Military emissions, military spending & the “COP of peace”
• New publications & UN Summit of the Future
• Global Week Of Action For Peace & Climate Justice
• Global Week Of Action For Climate Finance And A Fossil-Free Future
• Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 consecutive months
• NATO’s Record Military Spending in 2023 Caused More GHG Emissions than Qatar
• Saudi Arabia / Arab Group/ G77+China Proposal for a sales tax on developed nations’ defence industries as part of a climate finance package
• Presenting military emissions and spending to the Degrowth community
• Bonn Climate Conference attendance + arms industry tax & military spending filtering through
• Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
• The time is now to put arms industry profiteers and polluters in the climate finance frame
• ‘Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza
• Working with the British Media on Gaza
• COP28 to COP29: Webinar for Movement for Abolition of War
• World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target | The Guardian
• Naomi Klein Speaks Truth to Israel’s Power
• Gaza Famine: the hell that is never-ending. 
• TPNS participation at Climate Action Network annual meeting in Kenya
• Global Campaign on Military Spending UK AGM 2024 – COP28 report back
• A Christmas sermon from Bethlehem like no other + Is Gaza enduring one of the most intense bombardments in history?
• CHRIST IN THE RUBBLE – A Liturgy of Lament from Bethlehem
• Gaza: one of the most intense bombardments in history?
• Our COP28 round-up: TPNS events, presentations & media
• Video recordings of the 3 COP28 official events we participated in
• Webinar: Some insights into COP 28 – What is happening on the ground?
• Democracy Now interview: From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos
• Dec 4th, 6th, 10th – Official Side Events COP28 we are participating in – Climate Finance & Military Spending
• Webinar: ‘Climate Collateral’ – Exposing the Role of Militarism in the Climate Crisis
• Media release: COP28: Moving Military Spending & Military Emissions up the Agenda
• In memory of Professor Saleemul Huq
• Gaza: sharing reactions from our friends and colleagues
• Media release: NATO 2% SPENDING GOAL COULD DIVERT $2.6 TRILLION FROM CLIMATE FINANCE BY 2028
• MLK & climate justice: war as a metaphor for climate chaos
• Upcoming:  26 Sept Military Emissions Academic Conference, Oxford
• New article published in Degrowth Journal
• “The US and China must unite to fight the climate crisis, not each other” Bernie Sanders
• Bernie Sanders & 10% Cut to USA Defence Budget 2024
• Media Digest 
• ATTENDANCE at BONN CLIMATE CONFERENCE (JUNE 2023)
• Video recording of our Bonn Climate Change Conference SB58 Side Event
• Fair Sources of Finance for a New Loss and Damage Funding Arrangement
• Lieven and Beebe at Responsible Statecraft on the Prigozhin / Putin relationship
• Taking Our Message To Bonn Climate Conference June 2023
• ‘Price gouging’ by defence companies
• MORE FROM THE BIG ONE: Why War is a Racket
• Iraq:  Ignoring the Expert Weapons Inspectors Proved to Be a Fatal Mistake
• TPNS at XR’S THE BIG ONE 
• IPCC – We need to talk about the military
• WE ARE MANY – MORE THAN EVER
• UNFCCC Global Stocktake Submission
• Talk: Military Emissions, Military Spending & the Climate Emergency
• Webinar: COP27 Reflections & COP28 Look Ahead
• COP27 IPB webinar: Observations from the Blue Zone – military emissions and spending
• COP27 attendance and progress
• Democracy Now! interview: How Military Spending Fuels Environmental Damage
• Media Release: Richest Nations Spending 30 Times as Much on Military as Climate Finance
• COP27 side event: Dealing with military and conflict related emissions under the UNFCCC
• climatemilitarism.org website live!
• Military emissions raised in the 57th IPCC meeting
• 10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation 
• The tragedy of Mikhail Gorbachev was written by the West
• Mikhail Gorbachev  –  The man who dismantled an empire without force
• Open Letter to UN Sec General as we enter 6th month of Russia’s invasion
• Media release: Unreported military emissions  ― Technical Report & Advocacy Briefing
• Media Release. Unreported military emissions: pushing them up the UNFCCC agenda
• Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions: Ideas for Discussion
• MLK film & Transform Defence at Union Chapel
• Russia-Ukraine: one more conflict fuelling climate chaos
• Russian invasion of Ukraine – Articles digest
• Guest blog at From Poverty to Power (Oxfam)
• Russia/Ukraine War – How It Got to This Point and Was There Ever a Chance It Could Have Taken Another Course?
• How the military-industrial complex has captured Australia’s top strategic advisory body
• COP26 Global military emissions & net zero
• COP26 Open Letter Media Release
• Dereliction of Duty
• Doubly Unsafe : Our nuclear weapons bases ‘set to flood’
• Today marks UN International Peace Day
• Unforgiveable
• The UN Security Council and Climate Change
• G20 Open Letter Media Release
• G7 Open Letter Media Release
• Research Partnership with TNI State of Power 2021: Coercive World
• DW: Scorched earth: The climate impact of conflict
• Our new piece in the latest issue of The Environment magazine
• WEBINAR: UK Military Budget Briefing
• Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom
• Walden Bello on the US-China strategic confrontation
• MLK Day: Dismantle Triple Evils and Transform Defence
• TPNS new initiative launched with two new reports and a call to ‘Transform Defence’ on 5th anniversary of Paris Climate Agreement
• Media Release
• ‘Global Britain’ PR campaign in the guise of defence budget increase
• The ‘battlefield of international aid’?
• Coming soon: two new reports
• VPUK Tribute to Jim Radford
• Time to Rethink Arms Sales to Taiwan
• COVID shows that the military-industrial complex can’t keep us safe
• Jen Maman, Senior Peace Advisor Greenpeace International on Safety
• DFID / FCO Merger
• UBI, defence spending and coronavirus
• Water, Peace & Security partnership
• BAE Systems shares fall over Germany’s ban on arms exports to Saudis
• Where USA is at War
• How The EU Is Militarising – And Why We Must Stop It
• How the UAE is profiting from the chaos of Yemen war
• One-third of UK arms sales go to states on human rights watchlist
• Little Cyber Security for US Missile Defence System
• US Military’s footprint in Africa
• Saudi Arabia’s Blood Pact With Sudanese Genocidal Strongman
• Record number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan in 2018
• Price tag of the ‘war on terror’ will top $6 trillion soon
• EU arms sale to Saudi and UAE since 2015: 55 times more than aid to Yemen
• Spain: new Saudi corvette set for delivery in 2021
• Saudi and UAE are Starving Yemenis to Death
• Did bombing during second world war cool global temperatures?
• The Costs of War Project: half a million people directly killed by ‘war on terror’
• The Pentagon’s Industrial Policy
• The U.S. Navy’s costliest warship was delivered without elevators needed to lift bombs
• The Yemen Data Project
• Jobs Are No Excuse For Arming Saudi
• Arms dealers are having an increasing influence in schools
• F-35 fighter jet crashes on the same day its first combat mission was conducted; Trump believes F-35 is ‘invisible.’
• Britain’s arms exports grow by billions
• Brexit: increase in military cooperation between Japan and UK
• Is Climate the Worst Casualty of War?
• A Lab and a Showroom: how the Israeli military tested new equipment on the Great March of Return
• Israel Unveils New Tank
• The United States of Arms
• War for Export: Germany’s Bloody Secret
• Raytheon’s stock soars as civilians are killed by Raytheon rockets in Yemen
• UK ‘hides extent of arms sales to Saudi Arabia’
• Four RAF F-35 fighter jets land in UK
• Eurovision to Eurofighter
• For the second year in a row, Spain has shattered its own record for weapons exports
• British arms exports to Israel reach record level
• Lockheed Martin invested over $1 billion in Israel between 2010 and 2017
• War and Business
• The terrible consequences of the USA’s Afghan War
• SIPRI: Global military spending remains high at $1.7 trillion
• Don’t Buy Don’t Sell: Germany – Turkey
• A new America’s drone base in Niger
• Cambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propaganda
• “Think tanks” and mass media are making war more likely
• Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
• The number of ‘secretive’ deals to sell arms to Saudi Arabia has increased considerably since Theresa May became Prime Minister
• The UK has spent more on smart weapons than it has spent on humanitarian aid in Iraq
• Airbus criticized Germany for not spending more on defense and their tougher stance on arm sales
• 11% increase in Pentagon’s budget
• France proposes big military spending increase
• The human tragedies of ‘precision’ bombings
• Angela Merkel’s government set new records for selling weapons
• SIPRI发布2016中文年鉴电子版
• Lockheed expects profits to increase in 2018
• “No significant improvement” on the reliability of F-35s
• Britain significantly increases arms exports to repressive regimes since Brexit vote
• Lowkey ft Kaia – Lords of War
• The failure of War on Terror and War on Drug
• Israel’s global military and security reach
• William Hartung at Code Pink Conference
• The Costs of War Project: Global Map of War on Terror
• Norway suspends arms sales to UAE over Yemen war
• A new economics & new military spending agenda
• The Five Percent website is now live!
• MoD refuses to provide F-35 cost estimate
• The Toll of War: The Economic and Social Consequences of the Conflict in Syria
• The U.S. is waging a massive shadow war in Africa
• Don’t Buy Don’t Sell in the Trump era
• Five Percent and Universal Basic Income
• How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Lightning Jet
• The $1 Trillion Yellow Line That We Need To Return To
• Approaching the $2 trillion redline