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Decarbonize the military — mandate emissions reporting
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Nature 611, 29-32 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03444-7
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Competing Interests
O.H. and his team are in part funded by the UK’s Ministry of Defence and its Defence Innovation Fund Top-Level Budget Ideas Scheme: The ViTAL Living Lab. The views expressed here are the authors’ own; no funders had input.