ACTION ALERT: Stop Excluding
Military Pollution from Climate Agreements!
 ActionNetwork Petition

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (November 6-18, 2022) — Governments are hearing our demand! This petition is unchanged from that submitted to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021. But that does not mean it has had no impact yet. We protested outside the COP26 meetings. At COP27 there are three official events planned on the topic of militarism and climate within the conference. That’s a result of your efforts! Now is a time to further build the demand for action.

THE PETITION
To: Participants in COP27
United Nations Climate Change Conference

As a result of final-hour demands made by the US 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 COP27 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.

This Petition Was Endorsed in 2021 By: 

World BEYOND War • CODEPINK: Women for Peace • Stop the War Coalition • Extinction Rebellion Peace • Veterans For Peace • Greenpeace USA • 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 • A World Without Chemical and Biological Weapons • AbFaNG Aktionsb√ºndnis f√ºr Frieden • acTVism Munich e.V. • Aktionsgruppe Indianer & Menschenrechte • aktive Neutralit√§t und Gewaltfreiheit • Alameda County Interfaith Climate Action Network • Aldrig Mere Krig • Americans Who Tell the Truth • Arbeitskreis Recycling e.V. • Arbeitskreis f√ºr Entwicklungspolitik und Selbstbesteuerung, AES • Archivio Disarmo • ARGE Schöpfungsverantwortung • Argonauti per la Pace — Mondo senza Guerre e senza Violenza • Assemblée Européenne des Citoyens • Asociaci√≥n Espa√±ola de Investigaci√≥n para la Paz • Association of the United Ukrainians Canadians • Athena 21 • Attac Dortmund • Attac im Kreis Coesfeld • Australian Nonviolence Projects • Australian Religious Response to Climate Change • Australia Solidarity with Latin America • AWMR Italia Donne della Regione Mediterranea • Ayrshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament • Backbone Campaign • Bagwe Agro-Forestry and Cashew Programme • Baltimore Nonviolence Center • Baltimore Phil Berrigan Memorial Veterans For Peace • Basel Peace Office • Bathurst United Church • 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 • BI “Wer Stra√üen s√§t, wird Autos ernten” e.V. • BOCS Foundation • Boundary Peace Initiative • Bremer Friedensforum • Bristol Airport Action Network • Brookes Corner Humanities Center • Bucks County Foodshed Alliance • Bury St. Edmunds Quaker Meeting • CAAC • California for a World BEYOND War • California Peace Alliance • Cambridge Jesus Lane Local Quaker Meeting • Cambridge Stop The War • Cameroon for a World BEYOND War • Campaign Against Arms Trade • Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) • Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK) • Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) • Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice • Canadian Voice of Women for Peace • Canberra and Region Quakers • Casa Baltimore Limay • Center of International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights • Center for Encounter an Active Non-Violence • Centre for Peace Advancement and Socio-Economic Development • Centre Del√†s d’Estudis per la Pau • 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 • Clay and Paper Theatre • Clean Energy Action • 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 • Collectif Dionysien du Mouvement de la Paix • Columban Justice and Peace Korea • Comite de Nantes du Mouvement de la Paix • Comit√© Surveillance Otan • Common Sense ink.org • Communist Party of Australia (CPA) • Community for Earth • Community of St. Francis • 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 • Consistent Life Network • Corvallis (Oregon) Friends Meeting • Corvallis Divest from War • Council of Canadians Edmonton Chapter • Coventry Local Quaker Meeting • Creative Conscience • Dallas Peace and Justice Center • DC Statehood Green Party • Democratic World Federalists • DFG-VK group Erlangen • 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 • EcoMujer • Education for World Solutions • Educators for Justice • Environmental Defense Institute • Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center • Environmentalists Against War • Eurafrika Foundation • Everyday Peacebuilding • Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area • Feministische Partei DIE FRAUEN • First Unitarian Church Portland OR • Florida Veterans for Common Sense • FMKK, the Swedish antinuclear movement • FMWC WPS • ForcesWatch • Frauen f√ºr den Frieden Schweiz • F√ºrther Friedensforum • Fredsministerium • Fredsr√∂relsen p√• Orust • Freedom not Fear • Friedensbewegt ULM • Friedensregion Bodensee e.V. • Friedensb√ºro Salzburg • FRIEDENSBEWEGT ULM • Friedensmuseum N√ºrnberg e.V. • Friends of the Rainforest • Friends for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention • Fundacion De Estudioa Biologicos • Futuro en Com√∫n • Gatef Organization • Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace • George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication • Gerrarik Ez √âibar • Glasgow Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends • 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 Peace Alliance BC Society • Global Strategy of Nonviolence • Global Sunrise Productions Inc. • GNDE Ireland • Grand Junction for Peace • Grassroots Global Justice Alliance • Grassroots Peacebuiding Organization • Gray2Green Movement • Greater Baltimore Group of Sierra Club • Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility • Greater New Haven Peace Council • Greek League for Women’s Rights • 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 • Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN • Gruppe f√ºr eine Schweiz ohne Armee (GSoA) — Groupe pour une Suisse sans arm√©e (GSsA) • Hamburger Forum f√ºr V√∂lkerverst√§ndigung und weltweite Abr√ºstung e. V. • 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 • Ibero-American Alliance for Peace • Ican Kurdistan Network-IKN • IG DALEI DALI • Independent and Peaceful Australia Network • Indigenous Environmental Network • Indo Canadian Workers Association • Institutional Climate Action (ICA) • intal-Globalize Solidarity • Interfaith Peace Working Group • International Association of Liberal Religious Women • International Institute on Peace Education • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Germany) • International Tribal Association • International Volunteers for Peace • Internationaler Versöhnungsbund • Internationaler Versöhnungsbund Osterreich • IPRI-CCP • Iraq Solidarity Association • Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education • Jahalin Solidarity • Jemez Peacemakers • Just One World • Kasseler Friedensforum • Kathy Loper Events.com • Keine Waffen Vom Bodensee e.v. • Koncicc • Konscious Kontractors • Kurdistan without Genocide • Labour CND • La Socio-ecological union international • Laudato Si • La voix de la Libye •le Mouvement de la Paix • Left Ecological Forum • Leicester Friends of the Earth • Leonard Peltier Defense Committee • Let’s talk peace — Ballarat • leuvense Vredesbeweging • 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 • Llanidloes Local Quaker Meeting • lLeft Ecological Forum • 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 • Medact • Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute • Methodist Peace Fellowship • Michigan Interfaith Power & Light • Midcoast Green Collaborative • Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) • Migrante Australia in NSW • Military Poisons • 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 • Mouvement de la paix Bourges Cher • Mouvement pour la paix • M√ºnchner B√ºrgerinitiative f√ºr Frieden und Abr√º√ºstung (BIFA) • Mouvement de la Paix • 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 • Non-Violence Peace Foundation Inc • Nonviolent Austin • Norfolk Catholic Worker/ Sadako Sasaki Hospitality House • Nord Sued Forum Muenchen e.V. • North Country Peace Group • North East Dialogue Forum • Not 1 More Acre! • Nottingham CND • Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace • Novasutras • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation • NuclearBan.US • Nukewatch • OccupyBergenCounty (New Jersey) • Odv Salaam Ragazzi dell’Olivo Trieste • Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity, Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth • Office of Representative Sheila Babauta • Olof Palme Peace Foundation International • Oregon Aviation Watch • Oregon PeaceWorks • Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility • Organization Against Weapons of Mass Destruction in Kurdistan • Organization of the Justice Campaign • Our Common Wealth 670 • Our Drowning Voices • Pacific Climate Watch • Pacific Peace Network • Parallax Perspectives • Parents4FutureDarmstadtundUmgebung • 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 Durham • Peace Action Maine • Peace Action New York State • Peace Action of San Mateo County • Peace Action of WI • Peace & Environment Resource Centre • Peace & Planet News • Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois • Peace Fresno • PeaceHost.net • Peace House Gothenburg • Peace Movement Aotearoa • Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW! • Peace Pledge Union • Peace Women Partners • Peaceworks • Peaceworks Midland • Permaculture for Refugees • PIF Global Foundation • Pocket Change Project, Pocket Community Association • Portsmouth Friends of the Earth • Preventnuclearwar-Maryland • Pride Force inc. • 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 • Rainforest Relief • Reject Raytheon Asheville • Religions for Peace Canada • Religions pour la Paix — Quebec • ReThinking Foreign Policy • Rise Up Times • Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group • Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center • RootsAction.org • Roy Kendall Inc. • S.A.P. Pressing • Santa Cruz Climate Action Network • Science for Peace • Science for Peace Canada • Scientists for Global Responsibility (UK) • Scottish Republican Socialist Movement • Seattle Anti-War Coalition • Seattle Fellowship of Reconciliation • Seventh Generation Initiative • Shadow World Investigations • Shannonwatch • Show Up! America • Simple Gifts • Sisters of Charity Federation • Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth JPIC Office • Sisters of St Joseph • Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet • Small Business Alliance • Socialist Aoteoroa • Social Justice Coalition • Socio-ecological union international • SocioEnergetics Foundation • Solarverein Goldene Meile e. V. • SolidarityINFOService • Sortir du nucleaire Paris • Standing for Water • St. Anthony Social Justice Ministry • Stay Grounded • St. Pete for Peace • Stop 5G International • Stop Fuelling War • Stopp NATO • Stop the Hogs • Sunflower Alliance • Suffolk Progressive Vision • Sustainability Week Pakistan • Sustainable Environment Institiute • Swedish Peace Council • Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery • Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends • Tauiwi Solutions • TERRA Energiewende • Texas Drought Project • The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War • The Ecotopian Society • The Graham F Smith Peace Foundation Inc. • The Humanitarian League Advocacy • The I AM University • The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth • The Pacific Institute of Resource Management Inc • The Peoples Initiative Foundation • The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice • Tid Til Fred — aktiv mod krig • Tipping Point North South • Touching Earth Sangha • Traprock Center for Peace & Justice • Tree House Healing Ministry • Trident Ploughshares • TRUST Climate Action Strategists / TEDxVail • Twin Cities Nonviolent Movement • Ukrainian Pacifist Movement • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis • Union for the Justice Laura Marx • United for Peace and Justice • Universal Alliance • Unjourlapaix • Upstate Drone Action • Vermont Military Poisons Coalition • Veterans For Peace 10 • Veterans For Peace 13 • Veterans For Peace 14 • Veterans For Peace 26 • Veterans For Peace 27 • Veterans For Peace 35 • Veterans for Peace 50 • Veterans For Peace 51 • Veterans For Peace 63 • Veterans For Peace 69 • Veterans For Peace 71 • Veterans For Peace 89 • Veterans For Peace 92 • Veterans For Peace 102 • Veterans For Peace 106 • Veterans For Peace 111 • Veterans For Peace 113 • Veterans For Peace 115 • Veterans For Peace 132 • Veterans For Peace Spain • Veterans Global Peace Network • Vidas Viequenses Valen • Vrede vzw • Wage Peace • War Prevention Initiative • War Resisters’ International • Warren Federation of Musicians • Washington Against Nuclear Weapons • Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility • Washington Truth in Recruiting • West Australian Regional Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) • Western North Carolina Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility • Western States Legal Foundation • Whatcom Peace & Justice Center • White Rabbit Grove RDNA • Women Against Military Madness • Women Against Nuclear Power • Women Against War • Women for Peace • Women for Peace, Finland • Women for Weapons Trade Transparency • Women’s Climate Congress • Women’s EcoPeace • Women in Black, Cambridge • Women in Black, Vienna • Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Aotearoa Section • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Canada • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Italia • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Norway • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, UK • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Cape Cod • Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom, Nanaimo • Women’s Network for Peace, Germany / Frauennetzwerk f√ºr Frieden e.V. • Women Rising Radio • World BEYOND War, Central Florida • World BEYOND War, South Africa • Word Environmental Education Congress Network • Workers4Future OG WiMz • World Peace Berlin • Working group elektrbiology • Works In Progress • Xochipilli Chicano/Latino Men’s Circle • XRA, Rochester, NY • XR-Peace-Bristol • Youth Peace Network • Yugo sport & art association • √Örhus mod Krig og Terror • √ñkumenisches Netz Bayern • Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror • Arkansas WAND • Auckland Climate Action • Australia Solidarity with Latin America • Baltimore Nonviolence Center • Bergen County Green Party • CAAC • California Peace Alliance • Christian Peacemaker Teams • Christians for Peace Newcastle • Climate Justice Saskatoon • Climate Rail Alliance • Colorbrightongreen • comite de Nantes du Mouvement de la Paix • coasap • Community for Earth, First Unitarian Church Portland OR • Coop Anti-War-Cafe Berlin • De Azijnpisser • Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health- Kooteany Boundary • e~b strategy, Inc. • ECOERA • Educators for Justice • Environmental Defense Institute • Ethics in Technology • Fredsr√∂relsen p√• Orust • Fridays For Future Lebanon • Galway Alliance Against War • galway’s raging grannies • GLAM FCEI • Green Party of Mississippi • Green Party of New York • Hands Off Syria, Sydney • Harka • Hawaii Friends of the Soviet People • I AM University • International Volunteers for Peace • Iowa Peace Network • Kosmos Indigena • LaKunaBi • Lebenshaus Schw√§bische Alb • L.I.Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives • Mahattan Local of the Green Party • Malu Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action • Malvern Individuals for Peace • Mariposa Habitat Nursery • Mouvement de la Paix comit√© de Rennes • Munich American Peace Committee • My promise mother earth e.v. • New Weapons Rsearch Group (NWRG) onlus • Nurses And Doctors for Planetary Health- Victoria BC • Omni Center for Peace Justice and Ecology • Oregon Interfaith Power and Light • Parallax Perspectives • Parents for Future Essen • pax christi • pax christi Di√∂zesanverband Essen • Peace Action of San Mateo County • Peace Studies UNE • Progressive Democrats of America • Project World Peace • PuraFruta.org • Rational Medicine Network • Reject Raytheon Asheville • Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin • SchuPa Tansania e.V. • Show Up! America • Sisters of Charity Federation • Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet,LA • Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill Philadelphia • Socio-ecological union international • Spring of Light • Sri-Lanka Doctors for Peace and Development • Stories for Change • Swedish Women of the Left • System Change not Climate Change • The Quantum Institute • TV NUOVA RESISTENZA • Veterans For Peace Chapter 92 • North Country Veterans for Peace • Yorkshire CND • Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility • White Rabbit Grove RDNA • WILPFstlouis • WILPF-Norway/ Bergen-International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom • Wimbledon Disarmament Coalition/CND • Win Without War • Wired Broadband, Inc. • World BEYOND War Montreal • World Peace Berlin • World Pulse Radio.com •

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