Remind us. Who was the Amazon COP for?
In this post Ellie Kinney reflects on COP30, what it achieved, where it failed, what comes next and on the ever growing profile of military and conflict GHG emissions.
Side event | From policy to practice: Embedding environmental responsibility in mine action programmes
Side event on embedding new environmental standards in mine action programmes, our Green Field Tool and on how to respond to growing environmental and climate needs. Run in collaboration with NPA at the 22 Meeting of State Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty.
Joint briefing: Mitigating environmental harm by implementing the EWIPA declaration
Joint briefing outlining the pathways through which explosive weapons cause environmental harm, with recommendations for governments on how environmental considerations can be integrated into the implementation of the 2022 EWIPA Declaration.
Briefing: Accounting for the uncounted – The global climate impact of militaries
Policy briefing exploring the UNFCCC’s military emissions reporting blind spot, how rising military spending is exacerbating the problem and what needs to be done to address it.
COP30: What to expect on conflict, climate and militarism
With wars affecting every corner of the globe and military spending at a record high of $2.7 trillion, 2024 also saw humanity breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree target. In this post Ellie Kinney asks what, if anything, COP30 will deliver on conflict, climate and militarism.
New data reveals the Military Emissions Gap is growing wider
Our 2025 analysis of the military emissions data that countries report to the UNFCCC reveals that reporting is getting worse. Grace Alexander explores how, at a time of growing military spending, the expanding military emissions gap is undermining climate accounting and ambition.
Militarisation and the climate crisis in South Asia
Countries in South Asia are being hard hit by the climate crisis. In this guest post, Usman Ali examines how Pakistan and India’s security choices are leading to increasing military spending and emissions, while undermining human and environmental security.
Joint civil society statement on PERAC to the UN General Assembly First Committee
The scale of environmental devastation caused by armed conflicts and military activities is accelerating humanitarian crises and ecological collapse in ways we can no longer afford to ignore.