September sees two major Global Weeks of Action – the Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future (13-20 Sept) and the first Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice (21-28 Sept). Both address the global military’s role and responsibility in both GHG emissions and runaway military spending as an urgent source to tap for climate finance.

TPNS’s Transform Defence project released two publications to mark these international weeks of action, and, notably, also to mark the UN Summit of the Future.

UN SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE: Climate Change, Climate Finance and the Global Military

As the world gathers for the UN Summit of the Future followed by the General Assembly debate, peace and co-operation is at the heart of much of the discussion.

Urgent pressure needed to address the role and responsibility of runaway military expenditure in the climate emergency through the allocation of trillions of dollars to fossil-fuel reliant militaries and associated (supply-chain) industries instead of climate finance.  This briefing was prepared and shared with many of the delegates to the Summit.

WORKING NOTES JOURNAL

‘War and Peace—Exploring Irish Neutrality‘

Published by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice

‘Overturning the economics of war to deliver a co-operative future and peaceful green prosperity’

This essay was commissioned by Working Notes and explores the ecological aspects of conflict—with a particular focus on the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the military—through an economic lens. It asks what must be done to change course if humanity and our home planet is to reverse the current trajectory.