The Ukraine Crisis and the Recent IPCC Report
Just as Veterans For Peace (VFP) condemned US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, we strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and grieve for the human and environmental/climate devastation now occurring there.
Occupy Biden: Calls for Declaration of Climate Emergency
January 1st marked the final day of the weeklong Occupy Biden event, where dozens of people from various organizations, including Veterans For Peace, and multiple states had camped out at 909 Centre Road since Christmas Day calling for Biden to act now on climate change.
VFP Statement on Results of COP26
The Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis & Militarism Project (CCMP) believes that the USA’s poor “example” led to the half-measures achieved at COP26.
RELEASES: Veterans Support Monitoring and Reducing Military Emissions
Veterans For Peace (VFP) thanks Representative Barbara Lee (CA-13) for her leadership in introducing the resolution Recognizing the Duty of the Department of Defense to Annually Report All Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Progress on Reduction Targets (H Res 767). VFP is also pleased to join with numerous other peace and environmental organizations in supporting Rep. Lee’s resolution (Click here for full list of endorsers).
Statement on Leaders' Climate Summit from Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project
The Leaders' Climate Summit is a step forward after many steps backward by the previous administration. But it is just a starting point. In the breakout session hosted by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and attended by, among others, the defense ministers of Iraq, Japan and the U.K., climate impacts on the military, not the impacts caused by the military were highlighted. This is inadequate. The United States military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and emitter of greenhouse gasses, as well as a major polluter at domestic and overseas bases. Other large militaries also consume tremendous amounts of petroleum products and generate highly toxic waste.