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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
In this post Ellie Kinney reflects on COP30, what it achieved, where it failed, what comes next and on the ever growing profile of military and conflict GHG emissions.
Our 2025 analysis of the military emissions data that countries report to the UNFCCC reveals that reporting is getting worse. Grace Alexander explores how, at a time of growing military spending, the expanding military emissions gap is undermining climate accounting and ambition.
