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Author Archives: ConEnvObs

Apr262022

This summary figure gives an overview of the study and is titled “Tigray’s landscape restoration threatened” and accompanied by the descriptive text “Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing a successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services. Our research suggests these gains are threatened by the ongoing conflict. Using satellite data to cut through the information blackout, we found evidence of conflict-driven deforestation and a slowing in vegetation recovery. This is threatening to undermine gains in water and soil conservation, ultimately adding additional pressure on agricultural productivity against a backdrop of conflict and climate change.” This text tells the story of the visualisation below, which is a timeline with four epochs: before the 1980’s ‘land degradation’, 1990-2020 ‘land restoration’, November 2020 ‘war’, and post-conflict ‘?’. There are photographs of a degraded and restored landscape, satellite imagery of deforestation since the start of the war, and two map graphics – one showing the density of woody vegetation coverage pre-conflict, and another showing the hotspots of woody vegetation loss since the start of the conflict.

Report: The war in Tigray is undermining its environmental recovery

Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 26, 2022

Report exploring how the war in Tigray is undoing decades of landscape level environmental restoration, with long-term implications for food security. The study also examines the potential role of nature-based solutions in buffering communities during conflict, and in supporting recovery.

Apr112022

Do mention the war: Why conservation NGOs must speak out on biodiversity and conflicts

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsApril 11, 2022

Commentary arguing that conservation organisations urgently need to speak up about the impacts of armed conflicts on biodiversity in order to mainstream conflict-sensitive conservation in international policy making.

Apr72022

Webinar: Tigray: Nature-based solutions, conflict and resilience

Blog, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 7, 2022

Join us on 26th April 2022 as we explore the findings of a CEOBS study into how the war in Tigray has impacted its decade old environmental restoration programme, and the implications for food security and post-conflict recovery.

Apr62022

Joint statement on the environmental impact and legacy of EWIPA

Project One, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 6, 2022

Statement by six organisations on the environmental impact and legacy of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, delivered during negotiations on a draft declaration on EWIPA in Geneva.

Apr42022

NUPI | Climate, peace and security fact sheet

Country, External Content, IraqBy ConEnvObsApril 4, 2022

NUPI briefing paper on Iraq’s exposure to the effects of climate change.

Mar92022

CARPO | The Role of the Environment in Peacebuilding in Yemen

Country, External Content, YemenBy ConEnvObsMarch 9, 2022

This CARPO Report addresses the relationship between violent conflict and environmental governance in Yemen.

Mar82022

States reluctant to strengthen laws protecting the environment from war

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 8, 2022

Our new analysis of government views on a UN project to enhance the legal protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts has found considerable reluctance to strengthen rules that would help protect people and ecosystems.

Mar82022

Report: State positions on the ILC’s draft PERAC principles after first reading

Law and policy, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 8, 2022

The International Law Commission’s project to strengthen the law protecting the environment in relation to armed conflicts concludes in 2022. This report analyses the written comments of 24 states as we approach second reading of the principles, ahead of their adoption.

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