Addressing challenges in decarbonising militaries

Global militaries are some of the largest carbon polluters on the planet. Yet we still know very little about their overall contribution to climate change. Militaries generally do not report their emissions to international climate bodies. If they do, their reporting is often inadequate, leaving significant gaps in accounting. Title We cannot cut what we do not know. This collection of high-quality research seeks to fill the gap and open the ’black box’ on military emissions. These research contributions give policymakers, academics, activists and the public tools to hold governments accountable to fill the military emissions gap. This is only a start. Much more research is needed. But these briefs already point to the urgent need for mandatory military emissions reporting for both war and peacetime through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and beyond.