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Dr Stuart Parkinson and Andrew Simms summarise SGR's new report showing how induced GHG emissions from high carbon sponsorship push up the climate impacts of the Winter Games. 19 January 2026
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Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, highlights the possibility of nuclear winter due to UK nuclear weapons, and new data on the UK's military carbon footprint. 22 November 2025 (updated)
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Laura Shewan, SGR, describes the increasingly close relationship between the military-industrial complex and the academic sector in Britain. She also highlights the increasing antagonism of university...
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A new report by Scientists for Global Responsibility details the full extent of underreporting in official data on military greenhouse gas emissions. 18 November 2025
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The UK government has announced a new nuclear role for the Royal Air Force using US bombs and aircraft. Dr Philip Webber, SGR, explores the disturbing implications of this surprise announcement. 7 Oct...
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Laura Shewan, SGR, reports from the recent protests in London outside the world’s largest ‘exhibition’ of military technology. 6 October 2025
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Spending on the world’s militaries is climbing rapidly. Dr Stuart Parkinson summarises SGR's major new report examining how this rise is affecting carbon emissions. 16 September 2025
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With oil majors abandoning climate targets and politicians friendly to their interests capturing power, Andrew Simms looks at how SGR’s campaigning history inadvertently sparked an idea that informe...
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Dr Philip Webber, SGR, summarises the key scientific and technological information on the current threat from nuclear weapons. 4 August 2025 (updated)
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Dr Keith Baker, Glasgow Caledonian University, and colleagues explain new Scottish Government proposals for improving the environmental performance of homes. It could be a model for use in other natio...
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New research from SGR and collaborators finds that the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup Finals are set to be the most polluting World Cup ever, with extreme heat risks to players and fans raising urgent sa...
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Dr Ian Campbell shows how, on current trends, Britain’s carbon emissions will, within two years, exceed its fair share of the estimated global total that will breach the 1.5°C Paris target. He outl...
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Hannah Huibregtsen, Leiden University, highlights the problems of under-reporting of military greenhouse gas emissions, as huge military spending targets are being agreed. 24 June 2025
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Dr Veronica Wignall, Adfree Cities, exposes the role of advertising in increasing the explosive power of overconsumption and argues that it is time to stop promoting overconsumption. 16 June 2025
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A new report co-published by SGR shows that the recent expansion of European club football competitions is leading to a large jump in associated GHG emissions. The research also shows that the competi...
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Prof Mark Z Jacobson, Stanford University, gives a whirlwind, sun and water tour of the key renewable energy technologies needed to rapidly reduce pollution, and their major social and economic benefi...
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Andrew Simms, SGR, was one of the speakers in a university-hosted panel discussion around the importance (or not) of international climate negotiations in the past, present and future. Available on Y...
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Michaela Girvan proposes new ways to protect cetaceans under international environmental law due to their role in helping to tackle climate change. 24 March 2025
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Dr Gianluca Grimalda reflects on his legal victory, achieved following the termination of his academic contract when he refused to fly. 6 March 2025
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Dr Philip Webber, SGR, summarises the latest situation with the UK's nuclear weapons programme, including technical problems, rising costs, and the heightened risks from nuclear confrontation. 27 Febr...
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Dr Philip Inglesant, SGR, warns that the recent upsurge in enthusiasm for Artificial Intelligence (AI) downplays the increasing dangers which are arising due to the erosion of safeguards. 13 February ...
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Dr Philip Webber, SGR, updates earlier analysis of the considerable humanitarian impacts of the war in Gaza, including probable genocide. In particular, he summarises the role of the arms industries i...
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Dr Stuart Parkinson and Andrew Simms summarise SGR’s new research on the greenhouse gas emissions of the global football sector, and explore whether reducing the carbon footprint of football can hel...
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Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, highlights a range of problems with current science policies, and suggests ways in which they could better contribute to tackling the polycrisis and meeting social and enviro...
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Prof Gareth Wyn Jones, Bangor University, draws on evidence from physics and biology to economics and political science to explore the effects of greater energy consumption on social and environmental...
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Alasdair Beal takes a look at the UK nuclear industry – and finds that the proposed expansion has a workforce problem. 4 December 2024
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The return of Donald Trump to the US presidency undermines efforts to tackle urgent global risks such as climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, gives an overview of th...
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With repeated failures to heed warnings from scientists over environmental and health threats, Baroness Natalie Bennett and colleagues argue for major changes to the relationship between science and p...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) today called upon the UK government to stop lobbying against a UN resolution to carry out new research on the potential impacts of nuclear war. The research ...
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This report details the full extent to which military greenhouse gas emissions are underreported in UN statistics and national government reports. November 2025
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With military spending climbing rapidly around the world, this report assesses and compares the results of 11 recent studies which have tried to estimate how such spending rises will impact greenhous...
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This report analyses the growth in greenhouse gas emissions caused by the expansion of the men's football World Cup Finals from 2026 onwards, induced emissions from related high-carbon sponsorship dea...
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Find out how to make your lifestyle compatible with the 1.5°C climate goal enshrined in the Paris Agreement with our 10 evidence-backed targets.
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On 9th December 2025, conscientious objectors (COs) from both Russia and Ukraine spoke to an online audience of over 100 people in the UK.
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White poppy ceremonies across the UK on Remembrance Sunday marked a year of record global casualties in conflict zones. Wreaths of white poppies were laid in dozens of towns and cities in memory of al...
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Joint press release by Every Casualty Counts and Peace Pledge Union
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Senior figures in the Green Party have voiced their support for the white poppy, highlighting its message of peace and inclusive remembrance as they take part in remembrance events across the UK this ...
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The BBC is facing questions after removing white poppies from its main reception in Broadcasting House, despite previously stating that staff are free to wear remembrance poppies “of any colour”.
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It's that time of year again. In the run up to Remembrance Day, the white poppy sometimes comes under attack from military figures, some politicians and certain sections of the media.
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This Remembrance Sunday, acclaimed actor Sir Mark Rylance will speak at the national white poppy ceremony in London.
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As arms dealers queued to enter one of the world's largest weapons fairs in London last week (the euphemistically titled Defence and Security Equipment International, or DSEI), they were greeted with ...
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One of the world's largest arms fairs, DSEI, takes place in London next week, on 9-12th September. Amid global instability and conflict, arms dealers will gather to make deals that benefit the few at ...
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The UK is one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, profiting from wars that drive millions from their homes. But when those displaced seek safety here, they are dehumanised and branded as ‘illegal...
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by Asif Showkat Kallol In the bustling constituencies of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, a new political drama is unfolding as top opposition figures break with tradition to contest seats in the urba...
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RSJanuary 21, 2026
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UK January 16, 2026
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america January 13, 2026
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ben aris January 13, 2026
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the nation January 12, 2026
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substack January 12, 2026
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We educate both about and for the abolition of war. We engage in formal education as well as every variety of informal and participatory education interwoven in our activism and media work.
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World BEYOND War provides chapters and affiliates with resources, trainings, and organizing support to amplify both online and offline events and campaigns for peace and justice.
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At World BEYOND War we make use of all variety of media and communications production and engagement, creating video, audio, text, and graphic media, and interacting with media outlets large and small...
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Peace activist Kathy Kelly shares how Israel is refusing to allow essential aid and supplies into Gaza, continuing a slow genocide. #WorldBEYONDWar
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By War Resisters International, January 24, 2026 The undersigned organizations express serious concern regarding the continued persecution of Ukrainian human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko*, a
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Swimming against the stream for global peace in a militarizing Japan. #WorldBEYONDWar
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Carney is offering a path. We need to build another one. #WorldBEYONDWar
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At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for a “new Gaza”: shining apartment towers, luxury developments. ...
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Air Force veteran has informed them for 18 months they can refuse illegal orders. #WorldBEYONDWar
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By Maynul Hasan Sohel (Dhaka Bureau) Journalists and other stakeholders have stressed the need to ensure journalists’ safety and security, as well as responsible journalism, ahead of the upcoming el...
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Sheeple is defined as “people who are like sheep, meek, conforming, easily led.” And they are easy to herd when frightened. America’s most prominent sheeple are well-known leaders in the fields ...
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This region is not a slogan, nor a mere administrative territory. It is a living memory, a language that has endured for centuries, and a distinct way of being in the world that shapes thought, commun...
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There are historical moments when a power does not act out of strength, but out of panic. Not out of cold calculation, but out of strategic anxiety. The obsessive insistence of the United States on Gr...
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With a powerful declaration calling for the defense of human rights, real democratization, and active nonviolence as a method of action and way of life, the Fourth Assembly of the World Humanist Forum...
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join for an hour, a day, a week or the whole walk from Europe to Al-Quds/Jerusalem. Let’s create this walk together. Introduction The Peacewalk is a movement calling people from all over the world t...
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This Saturday (24), the Fourth Assembly of the World Humanist Forum began, bringing together a wide cultural diversity of activists, organizations, and institutions. The challenge set out in the title...
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They called it “Truth and Freedom Day,” the mobilization in Minneapolis against ICE raids targeting immigrants, which among other things led to the death of Renée Good. It was a huge popular resp...
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In times of systematic intimidation, complicit silences and institutional cowardice, the joint decision by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the University of Antwerp and Ghent University to award an ho...
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The United States has officially completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), marking a historic break after nearly 78 years as a member state and ending its status as the organi...
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When the guns of the Second World War fell silent, Europe emerged devastated—physically, politically, and psychologically. In the ashes of catastrophe, European leaders drew what they believed was t...
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Recent Releases - Australia
Latest news from Australian peace organizations
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See latest report from around Australia and plans ffor upcoming campaigns, events etc. Voice No 108 January 2026
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Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) IPAN Patrons: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO & Kellie Tranter Lawyer, Human Rights Activist MEDIA RELEASE ...
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IPAN CC member David Higginbottom presented a talk to the IPAN members meeting on 15 December, 2025. His talk outlined a proposal for a national campaign for independence and Peace.
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IPAN Patrons: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO & Kellie Tranter Lawyer, Human Rights Activist Media Release 19th November, 2025 The In...
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An IPAN podcast discussing how the Australian subservience to the United States (through the so called US alliance) is even an obstacle to Australia taking a principled stance on nuclear weapons, and ...
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IPAN Patrons: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO & Kellie Tranter Lawyer, Human Rights Activist MEDIA RELEASE 4 November ...
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Read the latest IPAN newsletter on news, reports and upcoming events Voice No 107 November 2025
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This is a working Group of IPAN aimed at assisting the current people’s movements around Australia in support of the Palestinian people. Contact kathrynk09@gmail.com Please consider joining I...
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An IPAN podcast about the Whitlam sacking, and its continuing implications today. https://ipan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/The-Whitlam-Goverenment-sacking-and-its-continuing-implications.mp3
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Download the latest news and views from IPAN around Australia here.. Voice No 106 October 2025
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https://ipan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/UNGA-action-to-stop-genocide-in-Gaza.mp3
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International Petition calling for this- SIGN HERE IPAN Patrons: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO & Kellie Tranter Lawyer, Human Rights Activist IPAN MEDIA RELEASE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE 15 September 2025 15 September marks four years since the Morrison Government sprung AUKUS on all Australians AUKU...
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IPAN Patrons: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO & Kellie Tranter Lawyer, Human Rights Activist MEDIA RELEASE 8 September 2025 Peace...
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Media Alert October 20, 2025 Tuesday Nov 4, 2025 International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney Assemble: 8am Chinese Garden of Friendship, 8.30am march to ICC, Speakers and Performers 9.00a...
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Indo Pacific Expo Nov 4-6 Funded and sponsored by the NSW and Federal Governments. To be held in the International Conference Centre in Darling Harbour Introduction A arms bazaar in the middle of the ...
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statement 22nd June 2025 No civilised nation would bomb a nuclear facility spokesperson from the Stockholm International Peace Research Insitute (SIPRI) Australian Anti-Bases response to the US bombin...
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Images of past campaigns to clsoe pine gap The Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs is expanding and so is its importance to the US,” Denis Doherty from the Anti-Bases Campaign said in Sydney today....
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Sydney, Australia, May 7 2024. Images of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending Sydney Australia May 7 2024. The three sides of the pyramid shape in Railway Square near the major bus station. M...
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Richard Marles addressing the National Press Club 17th April 2024 Marles boost to military spending is a disgrace Peace groups are outraged by Defence Minister Richard Marles announcement today at the...
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GDAMS logo for 2024 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) New SIPRI military expenditure data Media conference on the figures for military spending over the year just past A summary...
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Timber Creek NT is little more than a pitstop in the NT. It is in the spotlight because it is next to the huge military base Bradshaw and on the Victoria River which has flooded seriously just recen...
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NO NUCLEAR SUBMARINES Campaign proposals a) Campaign plan – for all Work to develop specific actions to involve the ALP left in the campaign; send letters to and/or ring all ALP Federal and State pa...
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PUBLIC STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 20 Sep. 2021 Australians speak out against nuclear submarines and AUKUS Australia cannot become a staging point for the U.S. military, we cannot abroga...
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