NATO aims to reduce climate emissions

NATO must reduce its “military emissions” in an effort to tackle climate change, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Twitter:

Great to welcome @ClimateEnvoy John Kerry to Brussels. We agree that climate change makes the world more unsafe, so #NATO needs to step up and play a bigger role in combating it – including by reducing military emissions. I look forward to working closely together. #NATO2030 pic.twitter.com/Bn1dF6D8Mq

— Jens Stoltenberg (@jensstoltenberg) March 10, 2021

This announcement comes as President Biden aims to reengage with the military alliance after fraught relations under previous President Donald Trump, who was also notoriously dubious about the scientific consensus on climate change.

Last September, in an op-ed published on the NATO website, Stoltenberg declared he had been “passionate about climate change all of my life… [and] it is my responsibility to address the threat climate change poses to our shared security.”

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NATO must reduce military emissions — Jens Stoltenberg, Deutsche Welle, 2021-03-10

By Lukas Frisch Tonkinson.