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Category Archives: Blog

Oct152024

Nine mocked up fuel cans showing the different types of fuel that could be substituted with Sustainable Aviation Fuel, according to a company working with the UK Ministry of Defence.

Has climate securitisation obstructed military decarbonisation?

Blog, Blog, Military emissions blogs, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsOctober 15, 2024

In this post Doug Weir examines whether framing the climate crisis primarily as a security threat slowed the growth of the partnerships and public consent needed to support rapid military decarbonisation.

Oct32024

The environmental costs of the escalating Middle East crisis

Blog, Country, Iraq, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Slider, Syria, YemenBy ConEnvObsOctober 3, 2024

A year of escalating conflict across the Middle East has had a range of direct and reverberating consequences for the region’s environment. In this post we identify the current and emerging trends that are threatening human health and often fragile and degraded ecosystems.

Oct12024

The satellite image shows a circular mounded dump spreading over a wetland habitat and creeks.

Detecting Yemen’s informal dumpsites from space

Blog, Country, Slider, YemenBy ConEnvObsOctober 1, 2024

The war in Yemen has profoundly affected solid waste management, increasing open dumping and with it risks to the environment and public health. In this post, Hanna Schulten explores how satellites can identify dumpsites and so help inform remedial measures and waste management policies.

Aug142024

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CEOBS announces its expanded Board of Trustees

Blog, SliderBy Simon WatkinsAugust 14, 2024

We are delighted to announces our newly expanded Board of Trustees, including four new members appointed in July. The Board now comprises seven members with expertise from across the charitable, public and international development sectors.

Jun122024

Explore cases of environmental harm in Ukraine

Blog, Country, Slider, UkraineBy ConEnvObsJune 12, 2024

CEOBS has been remotely tracking and assessing environmentally-relevant incidents in Ukraine since February 2022. We share our data with relevant stakeholders, it informs our research and advocacy activities, and it is our hope that the dataset will also contribute to Ukraine’s green recovery. We’ve now used it to create an interactive map.

Jun42024

Two Abrams tanks on a firing range fire producing large bursts of flame during a NATO exercise in 2024.

National climate action plans must include military emissions

Blog, Blog, Military emissions blogs, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsJune 4, 2024

COP28 agreed that countries must submit new NDCs by February 2025. These national plans for climate action are important but at present military emissions are largely absent from them. As Linsey Cottrell finds, failing to include them this year could delay their inclusion until 2030.

Mar42024

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen claps as Leila Baneli President of UNEA-6 gavels a resolution during the final plenary.

UNEA-6 passes resolution on environmental assistance and recovery in areas affected by armed conflict

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 4, 2024

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.

Feb192024

A soldier looks out of a helicopter above the Hurrican Katrina floods, which have engulfed residential areas of New Orleans.

Ticking boxes: are military climate mitigation strategies fit for purpose?

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsFebruary 19, 2024

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.

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