Climate change is now having a significant impact on wellbeing and security for people across the world. The links shared here include a range of Quaker resources and organisations, and those from other parts of the wider peace movement that address the links between the climate crisis and peace.
Quakers
- QUNO publication connects climate science with personal and political actions (November 2023)
- Quakers push loss and damage fund at COP28 (November 2023)
- The climate can’t afford the cost of war (September 2023)
- Make Polluters Pay campaign – Take action for a loss and damage fund. (September 2023)
- The horrible, wonderful truth about climate – Rupert Read – (Salter Lecture, April 2023)
- Stop insuring new fossil fuels, faith leaders urge Lloyd’s (April 2023)
- Quaker voice heard at crunch climate talks (March 2023)
- Quakers call on prime minister to rule out opening UK’s largest oil and gas field (February 2023)
- Fulfil promises and keep 1.5C alive, Quakers urge UK government (22 November 2022)
- Quakers push for justice at UN climate talks (24 October 2022)
- Quakers join international action for a loss and damage fund (September 2022)
- 50 resources on climate justice – A directory for Quakers
- Webinar: How are Quakers supporting climate action at the UN? (May 2022)
- Ending the fossil fuel era: 5 things the UK government can do in 2022 (Feb 2022)
- Is COP26 enough? Peace, militarism, and the climate crisis: a missing piece (Webinar, January 2022)
- Quakers in Britain statement on COP26 outcomes 15 Nov 2021
- The QUNO Climate Change team during COP26: activities and reflections Nov 2021
- “Our faith does not permit us to stand by”: Quakers’ statement ahead of COP26 – 21 October 2021
- Quakers and the UN climate talks – how do we seize this moment? short video of presentation from Quakers in Britain
- Quaker UN Office – Human Impacts of Climate Change
- QUAKERS & CLIMATE CHANGE WORLDWIDE – A portal for Quaker climate action across the globe
- Quakers in Britain – The Spiritual Basis for Quaker Climate Action
- Quakers in Britain Quakers and Climate Justice leaflet
- Faith-based action for climate justice – video of spoken introductions at British Quakers’ Yearly Meeting, August 2021
- A Call to Act on Climate – Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Climate, peace, and human rights – Quaker Council for European Affairs
- Climate Change – Canadian Friends Service Committee
- Quaker Earthcare Witness
- FWCC – world Quaker body page on COP26
- Living Witness Project
Peace & justice campaigns and NGOs
- Joining the Dots: Lessons for peacebuilders navigating conflict, gender and climate change (Rethinking Security, November 2023)
- Climate, war and nuclear weapons (November 2023)
- As world leaders and civil society convene in Dubai, what will COP28 hold for issues at the intersection of militarism, conflict and the climate? (CEOBS November 2023)
- Rethinking Climate Change and Food Security (Rethinking Security Podcast, July 2023)
- Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice working group – informal network of researchers and activists committed to ending militarisation of the climate crisis.
- No Security Without Climate Security (Rethinking Security, January 2023)
- Human Security and Climate Change (Rethinking Security, December 2022)
- CLIMATE COLLATERAL How military spending accelerates climate breakdown – (report from Transnational Institute and others, November 2022)
- Estimating the Military’s Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions (report from Scientists for Global Responsibility and Conflict and Environment Observatory – November 2022)
- Stranded Assets: Climate, collusion and the geopolitics of a green transition – (blog piece by Paul Rogers for Rethinking Security, September 2022)
- Let’s Place Sustainability and Climate Change at the Heart of International Policy (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 2022)
- A framework for military greenhouse gas emissions reporting (June 2022)
- The Russia-Ukraine war and the climate crisis (SGR presentation, June 2022)
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI report, May 2022)
- What’s Missing (& Needed) Post COP26?: Root Causes, Human Rights and Avoiding Securitization (Webinar, Feb 2022)
- The Global Peace Dividend Initiative – Redirect world military spending towards climate, health, and prosperity – Nobel Laureates’ and citizens’ appeal
- Campaign Against Arms Trade – Fighting the Wrong Battles
- Campaign Against Arms Trade – Arms to Renewables
- Scientists for Global Responsibility – Military v Climate Spending in the UK
- Extinction Rebellion Peace
- The Military Emissions Gap
- Movement for the Abolition of War – Climate Change and Military Emissions
- Global Campaign on Military Spending – Climate Emergency
- Rethinking Security
- Secure Scotland
- CND – Climate not Trident
- Climate change and security – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- Institute for Climate and Peace
- Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety – Tipping Point North South
- Conflict and Environment Observatory – Military and the environment
- Christian Aid – Climate Justice Campaign
- Oxfam – Aid organisations call on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger
- Conciliation Resources – Climate and Environment
- United Nations Association (UNA) UK – Climate Change Campaign Hub
- New Security Beat
Other
- 2023
- How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos from Gaza to Ukraine (December 2023)
- Divert military spending to fund climate aid, activists urge Cop28 (December 2023)
- NATO Cannot Combat Climate Change (December 2023)
- Heatwaves and conflict collide: Impact of ‘global boiling’ on Middle East war victims (August 2023)
- Insight: World’s war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot (July 2023)
- Are militaries driving the climate crisis? (Aljazeera feature, May 2023)
- Number of internally displaced people hits record due to war, climate change (May 2023)
2022 - Climate Collateral How military spending accelerates climate breakdown (Nov 2022 report from Transnational Institute)
- It’s high time to defuse the military carbon bomb (Nov 2022)
- A White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding: Nurturing an Ecosystem for Peace (Feb 2022)
- Why the UN Security Council can’t keep ignoring climate-driven conflict (New Statesman article, June 2022)
- Reimagining the Human-Environment Relationship: Why Climate Change Matters for Human Security (UN Environment Programme, May 2022)