Estimating the Military’s Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

We follow a similar line of reasoning for the Middle East and North Africa although the The estimated distribution of military personnel main military nations in this region tend to be at across the main geopolitical regions of the world a lower level of economic development, but have is given in Table 3. [...] The EU – on average – is towards the lower German end of the scale, while the USA is towards the higher end, but not as high as the UK because of its high level of stationary emissions per head. [...] Table 6 gives upper and lower estimates of The global range for operational military GHG these two types of military emissions for each emissions is approximately between 300 and 600 of the seven geopolitical regions and the world million tonnes (Mt) of CO2e, which is between as a whole. [...] Action needed The new methodology presented in this paper research by climate scientists and policy analysts has yielded updated estimates for the operational to understand the scale of military emissions GHG emissions of the military sector – at at national and international levels – and to approximately 500 MtCO2e each year or 1.0% of scrutinise efforts to reduce them. [...] This emphasises the urgent need for concerted action to be taken both to robustly measure military emissions and to reduce the related carbon footprint – especially as these emissions are very likely to be growing in the wake of the war in Ukraine.