Al-Haq | Environmental Injustice In Occupied Palestinian Territory – Problems and Prospects
This report found that insurmountable domestic legal barriers were creating environmental injustice.
Ukraine conflict – 24 months of urgent environmental recovery will cost $30m
The environmental costs of the ongoing Ukraine conflict are still to be fully quantified but an EU-UN-World Bank needs assessment has called for US$30m to fund urgent environmental recovery over the next two years. With UNEP still unable to assess or begin restoring the damage on the ground due to insecurity, this sum, which already far exceeds that for UXO management is only likely to grow.
Collateral damage estimates and the acceptability of attacks on industrial sites
The deliberate or inadvertent damage or destruction of industrial facilities during conflict has the potential to cause severe environmental damage and create acute and long-term risks to civilians. Can such attacks ever be justified, particularly when the consequences of attacks may be difficult to anticipate with any degree of certainty?
Vatican encyclical: “War always does grave harm to the environment”
The Vatican’s latest encyclical ‘Care for Our Common Home’ has triggered much rejoicing from the environmental movement, and justifiably so, coming as it does in the run up to the latest round of climate change negotiations. But in questioning the global economic order and its depredations on the planetary environment, Pope Francis has also sought to communicate a wide range of problems that have blocked progress on environmental protection.
Judging the civilian and environmental risks of cyber warfare
How much of a threat do cyber attacks on industrial infrastructure pose to civilians and the environment? More to the point, how do we judge the environmental acceptability of new forms of warfare, or current practices for that matter? Doug Weir takes a look.
ILC | Second report on the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts
The second report from the ILC’s Special Rapporteur proposed four draft principles aimed at minimising harm during conflict, and one on the agreement of protected areas before conflicts, or at their outset.
European Environment Agency | ENPI-SEIS project country report Libya
This report focuses on environmental governance in Libya and was prepared as part of an EU project intended to create a shared environmental information system in the European neighbourhood.
Colombia halts aerial coca eradication after WHO Glyphosate cancer ruling
Aerial use of Glyphosate herbicides in Colombia prove too controversial after WHO findings on cancer risks.