Benjamin Neimark

Senior Lecturer at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. Benjamin is a human geographer and political ecologist (defined as the intersections of ecology and a broadly defined political economy) whose research focuses on politics on the geo-political ecology of high-value military commodity chains, precarious labour and development. His current research looks at the US military as a global climate actor and, more broadly, the environment footprints of the world’s militaries. He is co-creator of the military emissions gap, which seeks full and transparent reporting of military emissions to the UNFCCC.  He has recently put out an interactive policy brief,  Confronting Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions,  which includes content detailing the intersecting realities of carbon pollution, militaries, and what this signifies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, ultimately affecting climate change and revealing deeper understandings of military and climate policy. Also just published is a recent study of US military wartime emissions in Iraq in the journal Antipode. For more see: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/staff/academic/profiles/neimarkb.html