How European rearmament endangers peace and climate justice worldwide

Join us to discuss the consequences of EU militarisation for EU policies that contribute to peace and climate justice!
An event organised by ENAAT as part of the StopReArmEurope campaing and the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice

Rather than taking decisive action to stop escalating violence and climate disasters, world leaders are militarising at pace. As ever-more resources are directed away from peacebuilding, social welfare and climate action towards war and armed violence, it is essential that our movements come together to take action for a demilitarised just transition.
Rapid militarisation is presented as the only way of guaranteeing European security, preserve our prosperity and protect us against our enemies with deterrence through force. But while the EU is supporting the arms industry and developing policies to preserve Western hegemony, militarisation comes at a social and environmental cost. It is undermining arms export control, contributing to more insecurity and possible human rights violations, increasing GHG emissions & diverting critical resources from a just green transition.
In the panel, experts from environmental, climate justice and peace NGOs will discuss what redirecting money to militarisation and arms production means for the green transition, for the fight against climate crisis, and for peace and solidarity with the global south.

Short presentations will be followed by a discussion with the audience

Speakers:

• Laëtitia Sédou, ENAAT – EU militarisation, competitiveness and the global arms race
• Emily Tricario, European Environmental Bureau (EEB) – Is EU militarisation compatible with the fight against climate change & green transition?
• Olivier Petitjean, Observatoire des Multinationales – How raw materials critical for the green transition could be redirected to the military
• Anna Penfrat, Non-Violent Peace Force (NVPF) – How EU peace-building policies are affected by EU militarisation