TPNS was delighted to be invited to speak and participate at the Climate Action Network’s Annual Strategy Meeting, held in February in Mombasa, Kenya. We took the issue of military emissions, spending and climate finance into a number of key spaces at the conference including a panel presentation on new issues to be potentially considered as part of CAN’s climate finance ‘escalation’ work in 2024.

The conference hosted approx 120 participants, representing member organisations, CAN Int’l regional networks (Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe) and the CAN Secretariat.

Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of more than 1,900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social justice. CAN convenes and coordinates civil society at the UN climate talks and other international fora. There is no doubt that Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza was a critical reason for the Annual Strategy Meeting to be so very open to our messages.  From New Zealand to Mozambique, Sri Lanka to Colombia, participants from all over the world as well as senior CAN Secretariat were at pains to find us and tell us how much our presentation meant to the meeting.

By the end of the conference, it was formally agreed to include militarism- especially spending- as part of the work-plan going forward. We are looking forward to developing strands of work on both military emissions and military spending with colleagues at CAN International.