Our new Military Emissions Gap dataset reveals that, in the face of the accelerating climate crisis and rising military spending, military emissions reporting to the UNFCCC is getting worse. Many countries reporting is becoming less transparent and we show how countries like COP host Türkiye are making their military emissions disappear in the paperwork.
What needs to be in place for the idea of environmentally sustainable conflict recovery to take hold? Anna Ackerman and Doug Weir examine why sustainable recovery processes are needed and whether lessons from Ukraine could be applied to other conflict areas.
Is there a pattern to fires on military sites across Europe? And is it changing in response to the climate crisis and increasing military spending? Students Sara Niknam, Adam Krid and Ritchie Davelaar from Utrecht University’s Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab consider the evidence.
The process of environmental mainstreaming in mine action has been underway for several years. Anna McKean and Jonathan Walsh explain how a new action plan for the Convention on Cluster Munitions would both reflect and encourage this process.
CEOBS’ WISEN tool can help systematically identify and map conflict-linked environmental harm. Lydia Millar explores how this data could be used to improve accountability at local, national and international levels, and the challenges of holding those responsible to account.
Rebekah Harries introduces WISEN WATCH: our new citizen science tool that allows anyone to help us remotely track and assess wartime environmental damage.
Countries enduring conflict are hit harder and suffer more deaths when disasters such as storms and earthquakes strike. Rebekah Harries asks whether disaster risk reduction frameworks doing enough to acknowledge this link between conflict and disaster risk?
By excluding people, minefields can reduce pressure from human activities. With governments obliged to clear mines and explosive remnants of war, understanding how their presence and removal influences biodiversity is critical. In this post, Dr Franciany Braga-Pereira describes what she and her team discovered studying minefield refugia in Angola.
