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• Climate Crossfire How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown

  • Climate Security
  • Climate Crisis
  • Militarism

  NATO’s goal of 2% spending of GDP on the military will accelerate climate breakdown by diverting billions of dollars from climate finance and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This year alone, NATO members spent $1.26 trillion on their militaries. This report  shows that this could have paid for 12 years of promised - and still not delivered - climate finance to impoverished countries to help them deal with the climate crisis. And for the next five years, if NATO members increase their spending to 2% GDP, US$2.57 trillion will be diverted away from climate spending by 2028. This would be enough to pay for climate adaptation costs for all low- and middle-income countries for seven years.

  Report by

  • Ho-Chih Lin
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    Nick Buxton
  • 

    Mark Akkerman
  • Deborah Burton
  • Wendela de Vries

  Publication date: 17 October 2023

  

• 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

  Publication date: 14 November 2022

  

• 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

  Publication date: 25 October 2021

  

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

  • Climate Security
  • Climate Crisis

  Primer by

  Nick Buxton

  Publication date: 12 October 2021

• Defying Dystopia: Building the climate future we need

  Climate Security

  Longread by

  Nick Buxton

  Publication date: 9 January 2018