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Wartime geomorphological damage and geodiversity loss in Ukraine

Huge swathes of Ukraine’s geological heritage have been affected by fighting or militarily occupied, in many places causing irreversible damage. CEOBS’ Rob Watson and Stella Shekhunova of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine examine the nature and extent of this loss of geodiversity.

In teh left of the image a circular opening to a water well can be seen, the land beyond is arid brown and green under a blue sky. The lower two thirds of a woman can be seen in the right of the image, she is pouring water into jerry cans.

A new political and funding reality for environmental peacebuilding

We are in the middle of an unprecedented reconfiguration of global political attitudes towards the humanitarian-environmental sector. In this blog, we document the ramifications of these changes as recorded in a community survey and online meeting in collaboration with the Environmental Peacebuilding Association.

🌍 Webinar 3: Environmental damage observed during the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine with the Conflict and Environment Observatory (@CEOBS)

💥 War impacts the #environment in direct and indirect ways — from bombed #landscapes to disrupted #ecosystems.

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🌍 Webinar 4: Working with available environmental data in Ukraine with CEOBS

📚 A compelling lecture by Anna McKean and Iryna Babanina, highlighting the crucial role of environmental data in Ukraine’s wartime context and post-war recovery efforts.

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NATO staff are watering down language around climate, gender and diversity to appease the Trump administration, with 'Green technologies' rebranded as 'innovative technologies' and 'climate' has been labeled an 'operational environment'.

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🌍 Webinar 3: Environmental damage observed during the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine with the Conflict and Environment Observatory (@CEOBS)

💥 War impacts the #environment in direct and indirect ways — from bombed #landscapes to disrupted #ecosystems.

Thread 👇

🌍 Webinar 4: Working with available environmental data in Ukraine with CEOBS

📚 A compelling lecture by Anna McKean and Iryna Babanina, highlighting the crucial role of environmental data in Ukraine’s wartime context and post-war recovery efforts.

Thread 👇

NATO staff are watering down language around climate, gender and diversity to appease the Trump administration, with 'Green technologies' rebranded as 'innovative technologies' and 'climate' has been labeled an 'operational environment'.

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