It's almost impossible to pin down how much the military emits globally. We are talking about a sector with a budget of 2.2 trillion dollars using helicopters, tanks, ships, fighter planes. And none of these CO2 emissions have to be reported. This is a story about one of the biggest blindspots of climate change and what we can do to change that.

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter:Albert Steinberger
Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editors: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Michael Trobridge
Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read more:
The military emissions Gap
https://militaryemissions.org/

The military spenditure in 2023
https://www.sipri.org/media/press-rel...

Study Estimating the Military’s Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/e...

Study about the Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change and the Costs of War
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/f...

Study about the climate damage caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine
https://en.ecoaction.org.ua/climate-d...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 The problem of military emissions
04:20 The issue with data
06:22 The cost of war
09:56 Solutions