TPNS latest Transform Defence publication ‘Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached’

Posted on September 13, 2026 by TPNS • Posted in 1. Recent Posts • Tagged Abolish War, Climate change, Military GHG emissions, Military spending, Military-Industrial Complex, War

To mark the Global Week of Action on a Fossil Free Future (14-20 Sept) and the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice (21st-27 Sept), TPNS has released it latest publication ‘Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached’ .

The war machines and lucrative arms industries are at the heart of our climate crisis. They are fossil fuel dependent, largely rooted in the big economies and are the manifestation of decades of colonial and neo-colonial ambitions. It has resulted in a century and more of perpetual war waged on innocent civilians and our home planet. To abolish war is to eliminate a major contributor to death, environmental destruction and climate chaos. To abolish war is to begin to see the end of the military-fossil fuel relationship. To abolish war is one necessary step in pursuit of the end of fossil fuels and the zero-carbon world we must achieve. This report unpacks the issue, gives an historical context and offers up ways forward.

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Download and read: Ending Fossil Fuels and Abolishing War: A Crossroads Reached

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The abolition of war – a nail in the coffin of fossil fuels

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Tackle corporate profiteering from Iran War, and provide cost of living support (Civil Society Letter)

Posted on March 27, 2026 by TPNS • Posted in 1. Recent Posts • Tagged Excess profits, Tax, War

TPNS is one of 40 leading UK civil society organisations which have called on the UK Chancellor to levy excess profits taxes on the windfall revenues numerous sectors are predicted to make as a result of the economic fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Co-ordinated by Tax Justice UK, the letter (26 March) includes reference to war profiteering. “Sadly, there are some clear winners of the war on Iran. Oil and gas giants, big banks, agricultural input industries and defence companies will likely make record profits, at the expense of enormous human suffering.”

The full text of the letter, signatories and media links below:

https://taxjustice.uk/blog/tackle-corporate-profiteering-and-provide-cost-of-living-support/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rachel-reeves-taxes-companies-iran-war-profit-b2946666.html

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/03/26/iran-war-profits/

Open Letter to UN Sec General as we enter 6th month of Russia’s invasion

Posted on August 6, 2022 by TPNS • Posted in 1. Recent Posts • Tagged Climate change, Military spending, SDGs, War

As we enter the sixth month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine TPNS has written an Open Letter to Antonio Guterres. It calls on him to consider concrete proposals that address runaway military spending and excess profits by defence companies.

Is excessive military spending coupled with defence industry excess profits a legitimate source to tap for climate finance? Has the time come to think about the concept of Carbon Neutral Peace and Defence?

Read the open letter here.