Climate Collateral: Exposing the Role of Militarism in the Climate Crisis

While nations have negotiated around reducing greenhouse gas emissions across many sectors, one higher emitting sector has remained more-or-less untouched by policy ambition: emissions from military operations and industries.

This omission is no accident: powerful governments have consistently blocked even assessments of the environmental and climate destruction wrought by sprawling military operations and toxic manufacturing. Meanwhile, high-profile conflicts, geo-strategic rivalry, and the impacts of climate change themselves signal an era of rapidly escalating danger to communities around the world — increasing the vulnerability to climate change.

This webinar, jointly hosted by the Transnational Institute, the Climate and Community Project, Win Without War, and Common Wealth, will present findings from recent reports on the scope and impact of emissions from militaries and related industries in the US, UK, and across NATO member states. The webinar will examine options to channel wasteful, harmful military spending toward repairing both acute and diffuse socio-environmental harms and repurposing parts of the military industrial complex to drive the clean energy transition.