ILC | Report of the ILC to the UN General Assembly
This report contains all 28 draft principles adopted by the ILC at First Reading in July 2019, together with their commentaries.
Civilian science: the potential of participatory environmental monitoring in areas affected by armed conflicts
Paper by CEOBS, Goldsmiths University of London and King’s College London on the potential of civilian science – participatory citizen science methodologies – for environmental data collection in areas affected by armed conflicts.
How Yemen’s conflict destroyed its waste management system
Conflicts often disrupt environmental governance and sustainable development. In this blog Doug Weir examines how the conflict in Yemen has interrupted plans to improve waste management while creating new risks to human and environmental health.
PAX/Bellingcat | Iranian oil spills on Syria’s shores: a brief OSINT overview of an environmental incident
In June, a marine oil pipeline feeding a Syrian oil refinery was sabotaged, this open source investigation considers the environmental consequences of the incident.
REACH | Syria burned agricultural area analysis (May-June 2019)
A study of satellite data by the REACH Initiative has found that 948,000 acres of agricultural land in Syria was affected by wildfires between May and June 2019.
HRW | Basra is thirsty – Iraq’s failure to manage the water crisis
An investigation into the factors behind the water crisis in Basra Iraq, and the failure of the Iraqi government to address them.
Forensic Architecture | Herbicidal warfare in Gaza
Reconstruction and analysis of herbicide spraying events on the Gaza border that reveals the extent to which Israeli spraying is affecting Palestinian areas, impacting on agriculture and potentially on human health.
UN lawyers approve 28 legal principles to reduce the environmental impact of war
2019 is a hugely symbolic year for the laws protecting the environment in conflict. The adoption of 28 legal principles by the UN’s International Law Commission this month is the first of two major milestones. Stavros Pantazopoulos Looks at what has been agreed, what’s missing and what happens next.