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online – War in a Changing Climate
November 9, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wars are raging and the climate is collapsing. Is there something that can be done to address both problems at once? Join this webinar on November 9 with Dr. Elizabeth G. Boulton, Tristan Sykes (Just Collapse), and David Swanson, with Liz Remmerswaal Hughes moderating, to hear some new ideas and ask questions.
The COP27 UN Climate meeting is coming up in November.
Governments are hearing our demand that military pollution no longer be excluded from climate agreements!
Our petition below is unchanged from that submitted to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021. But that does not mean it has had no impact yet.
We protested outside the COP26 meetings. At COP27 there are three official events planned on the topic of militarism and climate within the conference. That’s a result of your efforts! Now is a time to further build the demand for action.
Add your name to the following petition and share it far and wide.
To: Participants in COP27 UN Climate Change Conference, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 6-18, 2022
As a result of final-hour demands made by the U.S. government during negotiation of the 1997 Kyoto treaty, military greenhouse gas emissions were exempted from climate negotiations. That tradition has continued.
The 2015 Paris Agreement left cutting military greenhouse gas emissions to the discretion of individual nations.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, obliges signatories to publish annual greenhouse gas emissions, but military emissions reporting is voluntary and often not included.
NATO has acknowledged the problem but not created any specific requirements to address it.
There is no reasonable basis for this gaping loophole. War and war preparations are major greenhouse gas emitters. All greenhouse gas emissions need to be included in mandatory greenhouse gas emission reduction standards. There must be no more exception for military pollution.
We ask COP27 to set strict greenhouse gas emissions limits that make no exception for militarism, include transparent reporting requirements and independent verification, and do not rely on schemes to “offset” emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions from a country’s overseas military bases must be fully reported and charged to that country, not the country where the base is located.