Teresa de Fortuny, Xavier Bohigas - 22/05/2025
For some time now, the Global North has been expressing concern about its struggle to access certain material resources that it considers essential. Initially, the focus was on fossil fuels. It was feared, for example, that oil and gas would soon reach peak production, after which extraction would become much more costly (both in economic and energy terms) and the...
Pere Ortega - 18/02/2025
The military sector (armed forces and arms industry) is a major energy consumer, mostly of fossil fuels, which makes it a major greenhouse gas emitter. The military sector is therefore heavily involved in our climate crisis. To assess its carbon footprint, we need to take every phase of the production cycle into consideration, from extraction of the raw materials needed...
- 11/07/2024
As NATO marks its 75th anniversary at its summit in Washington D.C. in July 2024, what will be the climateimpacts of the world’s most powerful military alliance? NATO spent $1.34 trillion dollars on the military in2023, an increase of $126 billion in one year. This research conducted by Transnational Institute, Stop Wapenhandel and Tipping Point North South, copublished by Centre...
- 17/10/2023
Climate mitigation and adaptation efforts are chronically underfunded by billions of dollars, deepening the climate crisis and its impacts on citizens around the world. This has made climate finance one of the most contentious issues at annual United Nations climate summits as the richest countries that bear the most responsibility for climate breakdown have failed to keep even their limited...