Climate Collateral: How Military Spending Accelerates Climate Breakdown
Publisher: Transnational Institute
Author(s): Mark Akkerman, Deborah Burton, Nick Buxton, Ho-Chih Lin, and Muhammed Al-Kashef
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Governance, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
This report shows that military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources, skills and attention away from tackling one of the greatest existential threats humanity has ever experienced.