MAR Policy Brief | Mitigating the environmental impacts of explosive ordnance and land release
Mine Action Review policy brief for national authorities and their implementing partners aimed at minimising mine action’s environmental impact.
Mine Action Review policy brief for national authorities and their implementing partners aimed at minimising mine action’s environmental impact.
16 NGOs urge states at the UN General Assembly to mainstream the environment in the work of its First Committee, and beyond.
Review of Yemen’s water security, which finds that its severe water imbalance is currently being bridged by unsustainable groundwater pumping.
The worsening spiral of environmental destruction and violence since 2016 peace treaty between government and FARC. This study finds that a twin human rights and environmental crisis has intensified in Colombia since the government and rebel army FARC signed a peace treaty in 2016. The demobilisation and disarmament of FARC created a power vacuum in…
This report presents new visualisation-led perspectives on the Mesopotamian marshes, exploring the scale of the Marsh Arabs’ cultural erasure, the contemporary threats from pollution, fire, saltwater intrusion and the oil industry, and how their ecosystem services could mitigate a heating climate.
In this paper Linsey Cottrell and NPA’s Kendra Dupuy examine the environmental impact of the open burning and detonation of munitions in mine action programmes, and why the sector needs to do better.
This post explores how a new study from Gaza has added weight to the hypothesis that prolonged conflicts in urban areas may be creating the perfect environmental conditions for antibiotic resistant bacteria to emerge.
In this guest post, Elle Ambler of the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature explores the impact of the Israeli occupation on agriculture and food security, and the role that tree planting can play as an act of resistance.