Building on the Lucas Plan, a new industrial strategy can redirect productive capacity and skills from the military industry towards the development of green manufacturing.

An interactive map exploring the potential for green conversion within the UK military industry.

The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account for their role in environmental breakdown.

Defence procurement has remained chronically ineffective over the past two decades, while arms industry shareholders have received outsized returns.

State support underpins the production of arms in the UK. Who are the key beneficiaries of this subsidy? Can some of the industrial capacity currently concentrated in arms production be repurposed to meet urgent social challenges?