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Hello and welcome'm Matthew Galt.

Militaries around the world are preparing for climate change.

That's true even in countries where politicians are indifferent to

global warming, or at least were. But what about the emissions being spewed by those

militaries themselves.

Joining us to talk about that today is Doug Weir.

He's research and policy director at the Conflict and Environmental

Observatory.

And he's actually studied this issue which is a mix him one of very few so welcome to the show. Thanks a lot of having me. How much do we actually know

about military greenhouse gas emissions?

Yeah, so this has been an interesting process.

I think historically there's been a lot of focus on the U and the US emissions because they're pretty substantial, very substantial to be fair.

What we do know has tended to come from academics who have tried to figure out what's being emitted.

And the main reason that's the case is that the military themselves don't really report

their emissions particularly effectively or indeed at all effectively at the moment.

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