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CEOBS | Checklists for assessing military emissions mitigation strategies and reporting

As more militaries publish climate mitigation strategies, we have developed checklists to evaluate action and amibtion which anyone can use. If your country's Ministry of Defence has published a climate mitigation strategy or chooses to report their emissions, you can use the checklists too. If you do, make sure you get in touch and let us know your findings!

Ellie Kinney19.02.24

Articles

CEOBS | Ticking boxes: are military climate mitigation strategies fit for purpose?

Militaries are increasingly publishing climate mitigation strategies, so we have developed checklists to evaluate them. In this post Linsey Cottrell introduces the checklists, reviews UK and US strategies, and also compares military decarbonisation efforts with those of another large and challenging sector: healthcare.

Ellie Kinney19.02.24

Articles

CEOBS | Does reporting military emissions data really threaten national security?

While a few militaries report their greenhouse gas emissions, others do not, often citing national security concerns. In this post, Linsey Cottrell compares this to commercial confidentiality practice, gives examples of military datasets available in the public domain and questions whether the security implications of military emissions reporting are real or imagined.

Ellie Kinney07.02.24

Academic papers

Journal of Global Security Studies: On (In-)Secure Grounds: How Military Forces Interact with Global Environmental Change

Military forces contribute to, struggle with, and respond to global environmental change. This entangles them ambiguously with their ecological environment. This article, from Anselm Vogler, reviews these entanglements.

Ellie Kinney17.01.24

Media

The Guardian | The climate costs of war and militaries can no longer be ignored

CEOBS' Director Doug Weir writes for the Guardian on the hidden climate impact of militaries and war, and what needs to change.

Ellie Kinney09.01.24

Academic papers

SSRN | A Multitemporal Snapshot of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Israel-Gaza Conflict

Research from Benjamin Neimark, Patrick Bigger, Frederick Otu-Larbi and Reuben Larbi reviews the first 60 days of the Israel-Gaza war, as well as a wider look at war infrastructure and the carbon costs of reconstruction.

Ellie Kinney09.01.24

Academic papers

Science of The Total Environment | Tracking unaccounted greenhouse gas emissions due to the war in Ukraine since 2022

In this paper, the authors analyze how, during the first 18 months of the 2022/2023 full-scale war in Ukraine, GHG national inventory reporting to the UNFCCC was affected. We estimated the decrease of emissions due to a reduction in traditional human activities. They identified major, war-related, emission processes from the territory of Ukraine not covered by current GHG inventory guidelines…

Ellie Kinney05.01.24

Reports

Council of the European Union | Greening the armies

This paper investigates the need to reconcile climate and defence priorities, although it does not address the broader issue of the impact of warfare itself on C02 emissions and the environment. The first part highlights the potential win-win strategies of bringing together climate and defence objectives. In contrast, the second part of the paper emphasises the many challenges associated with…

Ellie Kinney01.01.24

Articles

CEOBS | “Always money for war”: reflecting on COP28

COP28 was a memorable COP for many reasons; a record-breaking 100,000 attendees, the first ever ‘peace day’, and the landmark establishment of a long awaited loss and damage fund. But yet again, and as with its predecessors, no outcome documents mentioned the contribution that military activities or warfighting makes to the climate crisis. Ellie Kinney reports on what was new.

Ellie Kinney21.12.23

Articles

The Conversation | How to assess the carbon footprint of a war

Dr Benjamin Neimark breaks down the sources of military emissions in this article for The Conversation, and explores how researchers can utilise this information to estimate emissions resulting from conflicts.

Ellie Kinney12.12.23

Reports

World Peace Foundation | Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Eco-Social Justice

In this report, Nico Edwards maps the ongoing militarisation of ecological crises – captured by the umbrella concept of “green militarism” – and its implications for eco-social justice. The paper calls for policymakers, researchers, organisers and members of the public to critically engage with and resist green war and sustainable arms policies.

Ellie Kinney11.12.23

Academic papers

Antipode | Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq

The authors examine one sliver of the hidden carbon emissions of late-modern warfare by focusing on the use of concrete “blast walls” by US forces in Baghdad over a five-year period (2003–2008). This study uses a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to study one of the world's largest military carbon footprints of concrete, an infrastructural weapon in late-modern urban counterinsurgencies. Moving…

Ellie Kinney11.12.23

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