At the 10 year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, U.S. climate commitments are being swallowed up by military spending.
The Paris Agreement, adopted on December 12, 2015, was supposed to catalyze global investment in climate finance to assist the world’s most vulnerable and historically exploited countries combat the worsening climate crisis. Instead, over the past decade, Congress has approved roughly 40 times more taxpayer dollars to subsidize weapons companies than support...
The climate crisis and militarism are two of the most urgent threats we face, and they are deeply connected. Militarism fuels environmental destruction and accelerates climate change, and the climate crisis intensifies conflict and violence.
To avoid the most destabilizing effects of a warming planet at home and abroad, the U.S. must rebalance foreign aid priorities and commit to providing a fair share of global climate adaptation and mitigation efforts– and end the arms aid that fuels conflict and enriches corporations that profit from endless war and climate collapse.
