To: Participants in COP26 UN Climate Conference,
Glasgow, Scotland, November 1-12, 2021
World BEYOND War, CODEPINK, et al.
(October 11, 2021) — As a result of final-hour demands made by the U.S. government during negotiation of the 1997 Kyoto treaty, military greenhouse gas emissions were exempted from climate negotiations. That tradition has continued.
The 2015 Paris Agreement left cutting military greenhouse gas emissions to the discretion of individual nations.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, obliges signatories to publish annual greenhouse gas emissions, but military emissions reporting is voluntary and often not included.
NATO has acknowledged the problem but not created any specific requirements to address it.
There is no reasonable basis for this gaping loophole. War and war preparations are major greenhouse gas emitters. All greenhouse gas emissions need to be included in mandatory greenhouse gas emission reduction standards. There must be no more exception for military pollution.
We ask COP26 to set strict greenhouse gas emissions limits that make no exception for militarism, include transparent reporting requirements and independent verification, and do not rely on schemes to “offset” emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions from a country’s overseas military bases must be fully reported and charged to that country, not the country where the base is located.
ACTION
• We encourage individuals and organizations to sign the petition below SIGN HERE.
• We also ask organizations to sign a similar petition created by Conflict and Environment Observatory here.
• We encourage groups and individuals to organize events to advance this message on or about the big day of action in Glasgow on November 6, 2021. Resources and ideas for events are here.
World BEYOND War and CODEPINK and allies will be delivering the petition in Glasgow.
The Petition Has Been Signed By:
World BEYOND War • CODEPINK: Women for Peace • Stop the War Coalition • Extinction Rebellion Peace • Veterans For Peace • Environmental Defense Institute • World Without War and Without Violence • Extinction Rebellion GreyPower • International Peace Bureau • Swords Into Ploughshares • Friends of the Earth Australia • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom • Frontline Action on Coal • Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament • Grand Parents Climate Campaign • Global Campaign on Military Spending • Our Climate Declaration NZ • Pax Christi • Climate Action Leicester and Leicestershire • Peace & Justice (Scotland) • Micronesia Climate Change Alliance • Physicians for Social Responsibility • Sierra Club Maryland Chapter • Global Campaign for Peace Education • Transition Edinburgh • Protect All Children’s Environment • International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) • Solar Wind Works • 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations • 350 CT • 350 Eugene • 350 Humboldt • 350 Kishwaukee • 350 Martha’s Vineyard Island • 350 Oregon Central Coast • Abbasso la Guerra OdV • A Call to Actions • AbFaNG Aktionsb√ºndnis f√ºr Frieden • aktive Neutralit√§t und Gewaltfreiheit • Americans Who Tell the Truth • Arbeitskreis Recycling e.V. • ARGE Schöpfungsverantwortung • Argonauti per la Pace – Mondo senza Guerre e senza Violenza • Assemblée Européenne des Citoyens • Athena 21 • Attac Dortmund • Australian Nonviolence Projects • Australian Religious Response to Climate Change • AWMR Italia Donne della Regione Mediterranea • Bagwe Agro-Forestry and Cashew Programme • Baltimore Nonviolence Center • Baltimore Phil Berrigan Memorial Veterans For Peace • Basel Peace Office • Beati i costruttori di pace • Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit • Bergen County Green Party • Bimblebox Alliance Inc. • Beyond War • Beyond War and Miliatarism • Beyond War and Militarism Syracuse • Boundary Peace Initiative • Bristol Airport Action Network • Brookes Corner Humanities Center • Bucks County Foodshed Alliance • California for a World BEYOND War • California Peace Alliance • Cameroon for a World BEYOND War • Campaign Against Arms Trade • Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) • Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) • Canberra and Region Quakers • Center of International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights • Center for Encounter an Active Non-Violence • Centre for Peace Advancement and Socio-Economic Development • Centro Documentazione del Manifesto Pacifista Internazionale • Ceryx • Cessez d’alimenter la Guerre • Chester County Peace Movement • Choose Life Abort War Podcast For Peace • Christians for Peace • Citizens Aware of Government Activities • Climate Action Now Western Mass • Climate Change Community LLC • Climate Change & Militarism Project of Veterans For Peace • Coalition to Protect New York • CODEPINK Golden Gate • Columban Justice and Peace Korea • Common Sense ink.org • Community for Earth • Community Organizing Center • Conejo Climate Coalition • Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes • Corafid Centre for Innovation and Research • Corvallis Climate Action Alliance • Corvallis Interfaith Climate Justice Committee • Corvallis (Oregon) Friends Meeting • Corvallis Divest from War • Creative Conscience • Dallas Peace and Justice Center • Democratic World Federalists • Disarmament and Security Centre • Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Washington DC • Drawdown Toronto • Earth Action, Inc. • Earth and Peace Education Associates • Earth Care not Warfare • Ecojustice Legal Action Centre • EcoMaties Sustainability Society • Environmental Defense Institute • Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center • Environmentalists Against War • Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area • First Unitarian Church Portland OR • Florida Veterans for Common Sense • FMKK, the Swedish antinuclear movement • Fredsr√∂relsen p√• Orust • Friedensbewegt ULM • Friedensregion Bodensee e.V. • Friends for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention • Fundacion De Estudioa Biologicos • Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace • George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication • Gerrarik Ez √âibar • Global Action on Aging • Global Anti-Aerotropolis Movement • Global Campaign for Peace Education Japan • Global Mediation Team • Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space • Global Strategy of Nonviolence • Grand Junction for Peace • Grassroots Global Justice Alliance • Grassroots Peacebuiding Organization • Gray2Green Movement • Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility • Greater New Haven Peace Council • Green Earth Goods llc • Green Party of Monmouth County NJ • Green Party of Onondaga County • Green Schools Project • Groundwater Awareness League • Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action • Hastings Against War • Hawaii Peace and Justice • Healing Worlds • Hilton Head for Peace • Historians for Peace and Democracy • Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, USA-JPIC • Human Environmental Association for Development • Hunter Peace Group • Independent and Peaceful Australia Network • Indo Canadian Workers Association • Institutional Climate Action (ICA) • International Institute on Peace Education • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Germany) • Internationaler Versöhnungsbund • Internationaler Versöhnungsbund Osterreich • Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education • Jahalin Solidarity • Jemez Peacemakers • Kathy Loper Events.com • Konscious Kontractors • La Socio-ecological union international • Laudato Si • Left Ecological Forum • Leicester Friends of the Earth • Leonard Peltier Defense Committee • Let’s talk peace – Ballarat • Leveretts MA PEACEWORKS Now Group • Levis Productions, ltd. • L.I.Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives • Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution • LIFT Toronto • Light Path Resources • Maine Natural Guard • Manchester and Warrington AM Quaker Peace Group • Manhattan Local of the Green Party • Mani Rosse Antirazziste • Mariposa Habitat Nursery • Marrickville Peace Group • Mass. Peace Action • Maui Peace Action • Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute • Methodist Peace Fellowship • Michigan Interfaith Power & Light • Midcoast Green Collaborative • Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) • Migrante Australia in NSW • Missionary Society of Saint Columban • Monterey Peace and Justice Center • Monteverde Community Fund • Montrose Peace Vigil • Movement for the Abolition of War • Movimiento por un mundo sin guerras y sin violencia • Mt Diablo Peace and Justice Center • National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee • Network for Environmental & Economic Responsibility of UCC • New Haven Climate Movement • New York Climate Action Group • NH Veterans for Peace • Niagara Movement for Justice in Palestine-Israel Canada • NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark • Nobel Peace Prize Watch • No More Bombs • Nonviolence International • Nonviolent Austin • Norfolk Catholic Worker/ Sadako Sasaki Hospitality House • North Country Peace Group • North East Dialogue Forum • Nottingham CND • Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation • Nukewatch • OccupyBergenCounty (New Jersey) • Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity, Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth • Oregon PeaceWorks • Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility • Our Common Wealth 670 • Our Drowning Voices • Pacific Climate Watch • Pacific Peace Network • Parallax Perspectives • Partera (Peacebuilders) International • Party for Animal Welfare • Party for Animal Welfare (Ireland) • Pasikifa Uprising • Pax Christi Australia • Pax Christi Hilton Head • Pax Christi MA • Pax Christi New York State • Pax Christi Seed Planters/IL/USA • Pax Christi Western NY • Peace & Justice Scotland • Peace Action & Veterans for Peace of Broome County, NY • Peace Action Maine • Peace Action New York State • Peace Action of San Mateo County • Peace Action of WI • Peace & Planet News • Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois • Peace Fresno • Peace House Gothenburg • Peace Movement Aotearoa • Peace Women Partners • Peaceworks • Peaceworks Midland • Permaculture for Refugees • PIF Global Foundation • Preventnuclearwar-Maryland • Prioneer Valley Local Chapter of the Green Rainbow Party of MA • Progresemaj esperantistoj/progressive Esperanto speakers • Progressive Democrats of America CA • Protect All Children’s Environment • Quaker Peace and Social Witness • Radiation Free Lakeland • Reject Raytheon Asheville • ReThinking Foreign Policy • Rise Up Times • Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group • RootsAction.org • Roy Kendall Inc. • S.A.P. Pressing • Science for Peace • Science for Peace Canada • Scientists for Global Responsibility (UK) • Seattle Anti-War Coalition • Seattle Fellowship of Reconciliation • Shadow World Investigations • Show Up! 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