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Climate Security

Securitisation and Militarisation

Climate impacts are increasingly being viewed through the lens of security, with the expectation that climate change will result in instability and conflict. In practice, this turns the victims of climate change into 'threats', to be controlled by military force, police repression and policies that entrench corporate control at a cost to human rights and civil liberties. TNI started exploring this work in 2011, developing a book published in November 2015, The Secure and the Dispossessed - How the Military and Corporations are shaping a climate-changed world

Latest

  • Climate Collateral How military spending accelerates climate breakdown

    • Climate Security
    • Climate Crisis

    This report shows that military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources, skills and attention away from tackling one of the greatest existential threats humanity has ever experienced. Order print copy

    Report by
    • Mark Akkerman
    • Deborah Burton
    • Nick Buxton
    • Ho-Chih Lin
    • Muhammed Al-Kashef
    • Wendela de Vries

  • Global Climate Wall How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action

    • Border Wars
    • Climate Crisis
    • Climate Security
    Report by
    • Todd Miller
    • Nick Buxton
    • Mark Akkerman

  • Primer on climate security The dangers of militarising the climate crisis

    • Climate Security
    • Climate Crisis
    Primer by
    Nick Buxton

  • Defying Dystopia: Building the climate future we need

    Climate Security
    Longread by
    Nick Buxton

  • The elephant in Paris – the military and greenhouse gas emissions

    • Climate Security
    • Climate Crisis
    Opinion by
    Nick Buxton

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Key documents

  • Climate Collateral How military spending accelerates climate breakdown

    • Climate Security
    • Climate Crisis
    Report by
    • Mark Akkerman
    • Deborah Burton
    • Nick Buxton
    • Ho-Chih Lin
    • Muhammed Al-Kashef
    • Wendela de Vries
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  • Global Climate Wall How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action

    • Border Wars
    • Climate Crisis
    • Climate Security
    Report by
    • Todd Miller
    • Nick Buxton
    • Mark Akkerman

  • Primer on climate security The dangers of militarising the climate crisis

    • Climate Security
    • Climate Crisis
    Primer by
    Nick Buxton

  • The Secure and the Dispossessed How the military and the corporations are shaping a climate-changed world

    • Just Transition
    • Climate Security
    • Climate Crisis
    Book
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The Secure and the Dispossessed

Book

How the military and the corporations are shaping a climate-changed world

This agenda-setting book examines the military and corporations' strategies in the context of climate change to secure wealth for those who have it while further dispossessing those who will be most affected by climate change.

 

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