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Author Archives: ConEnvObs

Jul82020

OSCE | Donbas tailings storage facilities

Country, External Content, UkraineBy ConEnvObsJuly 8, 2020

939 millions tons of industrial waste are stored in tailings facilities in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, the conflict is increasing the risk of a serious environmental emergency through direct damage, and by mines and heavy fighting obstructing access for assessments and repairs.

Jul82020

Can citizen science help close the environmental monitoring gap in conflicts?

Blog, Project Two, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsJuly 8, 2020

Unless we know how the environment has been harmed during conflicts, planning assistance to people and ecosystems is impossible. Could low cost participatory research help plug the current data collection gap in areas affected by conflicts?

Jul32020

AOAV | The broken land: The environmental consequences of explosive weapon use

External Content, Law and policy, TopicBy ConEnvObsJuly 3, 2020

Focusing on Syria and Ukraine, AOAV review four key areas of environmental concern to gain some understanding of the environmental consequences from the use of explosive weapons. These areas are unexploded ordnance, agriculture, infrastructural damage, and flora and fauna.

Jul12020

PAX | A river of death

Country, External Content, SyriaBy ConEnvObsJuly 1, 2020

Rivers of crude oil and oil waste are flowing through northeast Syria, with no solution in sight for the thousands of people affected by the pollution.

Jun82020

UN report details environmental degradation in West Bank and Gaza

Blog, Country, Occupied Palestinian Territories, SliderBy ConEnvObsJune 8, 2020

This blog summarises the findings of a new UNEP assessment of environmental conditions in the West Bank and Gaza, which has revealed the severity and intensity of environmental degradation.

Jun32020

CEOBS’ STEM schools programme for 2020-2021

Blog, SliderBy ConEnvObsJune 3, 2020

We have received funding from the British Ecological Society to develop STEM teaching materials on the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts that are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 students.

Jun12020

Time to move beyond Yemen’s SAFER oil tanker blame game

Blog, Country, Slider, YemenBy ConEnvObsJune 1, 2020

The fate of the hazardous SAFER oil tanker moored off Yemen is becoming increasingly politicised, in this blog Doug Weir reviews recent developments and considers whether the UN Security Council could help break the current impasse.

May212020

Exploring environmental governance in eastern Ukraine

Blog, Country, Slider, UkraineBy ConEnvObsMay 21, 2020

How does environmental governance function in areas that are governed by non-state actors during conflicts? Olga Shashkina has explored this question in eastern Ukraine, where two new republics declared themselves when the Ukrainian government lost control of the region.

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