Joint statement: Mine action and food security
Joint statement on behalf of 13 organisations on food security and mine action, delivered at the 27th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers, Geneva.
Joint statement: The importance of addressing the environmental consequences from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas
Joint statement on the need to address the environmental dimensions of the use of EWIPA delivered at the 2024 Oslo Conference on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
Project summary: Analysing the environmental impacts of explosive weapons use in Ukraine
Summary of a joint project with NPA to assess the presence and likely extent of soil pollution and wider environmental and socio-economic harm from explosive weapons use in two areas of Ukraine.
Workshop: Exploring the environmental data ecosystem for citizen science in Ukraine
Workshop examining the potential role of citizen science and civic monitoring as part of Ukraine’s environmental recovery.
The environmental consequences of the war against Ukraine: Preliminary 12-month assessment, summary and recommendations
Illustrated overview of the environmental damage caused by the war against Ukraine during its first 12 months, plus recommendations for how it should be addressed.
UNEA-6 passes resolution on environmental assistance and recovery in areas affected by armed conflict
UNEA-6’s adoption of a Ukrainian resolution could help reinvigorate UNEP’s work on conflicts and create much-needed guidance for states and others stakeholders on assessing conflict-linked environmental damage.
Paper: Assessing environmental damage in Ukraine
Papers prepared by CEOBS and Zoï Environment Network that were commissioned as a contribution to Ukraine’s High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War, they assess Ukraine’s environmental monitoring landscape, and priorities to restore its natural environment.
Ticking boxes: are military climate mitigation strategies fit for purpose?
Militaries are increasingly publishing climate mitigation strategies, so we’ve developed checklists to evaluate them. In this post Linsey Cottrell introduces the checklists, and also compares military decarbonisation with another challenging sector: healthcare.