Nov. 5, 2025

DIVEST IN VIOLENCE! INVEST IN PEOPLE AND THE PLANET!

• Climate Change Remains Top Global Threat Across 19-Country Survey | Pew Research Center 

• https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/apjihl4&div=10&id=&page=

We are collectively facing environmental breakdown.

• What is the Triple Planetary Crisis? | UNFCCC

War and militarism drive and enable fossil fuel use, and fossil fuel use drives war and militarism.

• Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War.

• Estimating the Military’s Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Oil, Conflict, and U.S. National Interests | The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 

• The Military Cost of Defending Global Oil Supplies - SAFE 

• Armed Lifeboat: Government’s Response to Natural Disaster – Utne 

Military spending crowds out funding for climate, including meeting human needs.

• Unprecedented rise in global military expenditure as European and Middle East spending surges | SIPRI

• The Trillion Dollar Trade Off: War & Weapons VS. Basic Needs

• SIPRI 

• https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/2024-status-pledges-website-june-30.pdf

• Bud Auth_FY2025.xlsx

• Weapons for a Warming World: U.S. Contributions to the Green Climate Fund vs. Foreign Military Financing

• United States of America - Fair Shares Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)

The actors that perpetrate the climate crisis and militarism benefit, while frontline communities suffer.

• Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

• On the Frontline of Climate Crisis, Worlds Most Vulnerable Nations Suffer Disproportionately

• Climate change and inequality | Oxfam. 

• How climate change impacts refugees and displaced communities 

• Blood and tears | Global Witness 

 

GENERAL

• National Priorities Project 

• No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis — and Vice Versa - Institute for Policy Studies 

• Join us: Climate and Militarism Working Group