War and Climate Change

May 29, 2024 | Covering Climate Now
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War and climate change are intertwined in ways that journalists need to understand. Violent conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere are not only causing terrible human suffering, they are fueling the climate crisis.

War — and military operations in general — have a massive carbon footprint that is often overlooked. Meanwhile, the immense emissions of the world’s militaries are excluded from limits imposed under UN climate agreements. At the same time, extreme weather and other climate impacts can kindle armed conflict — both within nations as people from drought-stricken rural communities migrate to cities and between nations. Perhaps most challenging for journalists is that war makes it hard to talk about the climate crisis in the first place. When guns and bombs are killing people, “the tyranny of the immediate” pushes war to the top of the news agenda.

Join us for a one-hour press briefing about these thorny issues with Neta C. Crawford, Montague Burton Professor at University of Oxford and the Co-Director of the Costs of War Project; Rawan Damen, Director General of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism; and Ellie Kinney, Campaign Coordinator at the Conflict and Environment Observatory, moderated by Giles Trendle, co-chair of CCNow's steering committee and former managing director of Al Jazeera English, on Wednesday, May 29, at 12pm US Eastern Time.

Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8817159729656/WN_t_suuR5AT-OfF2dnuN5SWA#/registration