Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Costs of War

Search Results for "emissions Pentagon"

Impact on Public Investment

Over one half of the federal government’s total assets — buildings, aircraft, ships, vehicles, computers, and weapons — are used for national defense. In 2000, the Pentagon’s total assets were valued at $1.1 trillion. Total Pentagon assets have steadily risen since then, amounting to $1.8 trilli...

more

Defense One Logo

The US Military Emits More Carbon Than Sweden

June 12, 2019 Defense One

If the Pentagon were a country in 2017, says co-director Neta Crawford, "it would have been the world's 55th largest greenhouse gas emitter, with emissions larger than Portugal, Sweden, or Denmark." 

more

Director: Neta C. Crawford

Montague Burton Professor, University of Oxford
Co-Director and Co-Founder, Costs of War
Neta C. Crawford is the author of "The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions" (MIT Press, 2022). Crawford is also the author of three other books, "Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars...

more