The idea that humanity and the environment are separate facilitates wartime environmental destruction, argue Samira Siddique and Simon Watkins. But it can also help us understand why communities must be at the heart of post-conflict recovery decision-making.
As governments gather in Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels amid ongoing wars, fragile ceasefires, spiralling military spending and a global energy crisis, Ellie Kinney explains why militaries must be part of any future energy transition framework.
Elaine Donderer reports on the first in-person event of the European Citizen Science Association’s new working group on citizen science in areas affected by armed conflicts, which took place at the Association’s 2026 conference at the University of Oulu, Finland.
At a time where many are questioning the extent and value of legal protection for the environment during war, Lydia Millar explores the potential of IHL’s due regard rule for minimising harm, and why it’s worth fighting for.
The war against Iran is disrupting global fossil fuel supply chains and, while states increasingly recognise that renewables reduce exposure to geopolitical shocks, Grace Alexander finds that there are dangers that emergency energy policies are chosen that lock-in emissions and energy insecurity.
Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in Tehran have exposed millions of Iranians to harm. In this post we explore the attacks and unpack the health and environmental risks faced by the civilian population.
As governments turn their attention to the intersections between nature, peace and security, civil society needs to speak up if we’re to avoid the dead-end securitisation of the climate crisis; to do so, argues Doug Weir, many of us will need to learn a new language.
Grace Alexander explains why exempting military products from the EU’s new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) undermines the bloc’s industrial decarbonisation goals and demonstrates a disconnect between its climate and defence policies.
