IPB’s new paper released:
17 September 2014. The draft working paper entitled ‘Demilitarization for Deep Decarbonization: Reducing Militarism and Military Expenditures to Invest in the UN Green Climate Fund and to Create Low-Carbon Economies and Resilient Communities’ is now released, just in time for the climate change mobilizations in New York in the coming days.
“Demilitarization for Deep Decarbonization: Reducing Militarism and Military Expenditures to Invest in the UN Green Climate Fund and to Create Low-Carbon Economies and Resilient Communities”
by Tamara Lorincz, Senior Researcher September, 2014
IPB Letter to SDSN and IDDRI dated August 15, 2014
Take Action
Join us for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending every April. In 2015, let’s link the Global Day of Action on Military Spending to Earth Day, April 22.
About Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project and COP21
Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP)
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
More info about the UN & DDPP
Some Key Resources on Militarism, War and Climate Change – IPB Recommendations
Books and Publications
Conflict and Climate Change, Booklet and DVD
Movement for the Abolition of War, United Kingdom
Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance
Book by Marty Branagan
The Impact of Militarism on the Environment
Publication by Physicians for Global Survival Canada
The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
Book by Barry Sanders.
Paying for the Climate Pivot
Article by Emily Schwartz Greco and John Feffer
The US Military is a Major Contributor to Global Warming
Article by John Lawrence
Websites
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Stop the Wars, Stop the Warming
Ideas for hashtags
#demilitarize2decarbonize
#lessmilitarylessemissions
###Don’t let the climate be another casualty of war
