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Category Archives: Blog

Jun292022

NATO won’t say how it will count its carbon emissions

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 29, 2022

It looks like NATO has pledged to reduce its institutional emissions but won’t publish the methodology it will use to count them. Doug Weir argues that this lack of transparency underscores the importance of military emissions instead being addressed by the UNFCCC.

Jun272022

UK sea-dumped munition policy falling behind that of the EU

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Project One, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 27, 2022

In this post, Rowan Smith and Linsey Cottrell explore the risks that sea-dumped munitions pose in British waters, and find that UK management policy is falling behind that of Europe.

Jun222022

Tracking military greenhouse gas emissions in war and peace

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 22, 2022

What sources of greenhouse gas emissions should militaries be tracking and reporting on? Ellie Kinney introduces our new report, which examines military emissions in both peacetime and during conflicts.

Jun152022

Addressing nuclear weapons contamination: New principles for environmental remediation

Blog, Blog, Law and policy, Project One, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 15, 2022

Bonnie Docherty of Harvard Law School introduces a new joint report with CEOBS on the principles that should guide environmental remediation as part of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Apr262022

How war in Tigray is threatening the success of restoration-based agriculture

Blog, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 26, 2022

Nature-based solutions can help make communities less vulnerable to the climate crisis, this post summarises the findings of our study exploring how Tigray’s has been impacted by war.

Apr112022

Do mention the war: Why conservation NGOs must speak out on biodiversity and conflicts

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsApril 11, 2022

Commentary arguing that conservation organisations urgently need to speak up about the impacts of armed conflicts on biodiversity in order to mainstream conflict-sensitive conservation in international policy making.

Apr72022

Webinar: Tigray: Nature-based solutions, conflict and resilience

Blog, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 7, 2022

Join us on 26th April 2022 as we explore the findings of a CEOBS study into how the war in Tigray has impacted its decade old environmental restoration programme, and the implications for food security and post-conflict recovery.

Mar82022

States reluctant to strengthen laws protecting the environment from war

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 8, 2022

Our new analysis of government views on a UN project to enhance the legal protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts has found considerable reluctance to strengthen rules that would help protect people and ecosystems.

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