seNATO has been addressing environmental challenges for over half a century.

In March 2021, NATO Foreign Ministers endorsed NATO’s Climate Change and Security Agenda.

It provides a 360-degree approach and includes measures to increase both NATO’s and Allies’ awareness of the impact of climate change on security, along with developing clear adaptation and mitigation measures, while ensuring the safety of military personnel and operational and cost ; The recently released ‘NATO Greenhouse Gases Emission Mapping and Analytical Methodology’ provides further guidelines on estimating the greenhouse gas emissions from the various civilian and military structures in the NATO Enterprise.

 In response to these challenges, NATO AVT established an exploratory team ‘Climate Change: Mitigation and Impact on NATO Platforms’ in Fall 2023 to assess climate change impacts on military platforms along with technologies for GHG emissions reduction and energy efficiency improvement within member ; ET-227 conducted an on-line survey to solicit feedback from the greater NATO community on climate change impact and gauge interest in further activities under AVT.

One result of the survey was the strong interest in developing better understanding of life cycle assessment of sustainable technologies to aid in climate change mitigation activities

The main objectives of the Research Specialists' Meeting are:

To exchange information and discuss various aspects related to life cycle analysis (LCA) of conventional and sustainable technology for military platforms in order to identify gaps and provide recommendations for further work

Topics to be covered:

• Policies and strategies on minimizing GHG emissions through green procurement for military platforms
• LCA use for green procurement: challenges and opportunities
• Green solutions such as GHG life-cycle assessment on commercial and military equipment already developed by suppliers or defence departments
• Incorporating circular economy, eliminating waste and continual use of resources to reduce GHG emissions
• Prospective LCA which include mid-life upgrades with greener processes/clean technologies

All details about deadlines and abstract submission are provided in the document "AVT-409 CfP_REV 1" on the right side below the map.

 Note: Final date for submission of abstracts is 30th September 2024