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May132025

A crowd of UN Peacekeepers is visible in the foreground, wearing camouflage uniform and their distinctive blue helmets emblazoned with a white "UN". In the background brown arid desert. Around 40 troops are visible.

The importance of tackling the climate impacts of UN Peacekeeping

Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMay 13, 2025

To mark this week’s UN Peacekeeping Ministerial in Berlin, Ellie Kinney explains its potential role in improving transparency over the reporting of military GHG emissions and shares recommendations that would help encourage decarbonisation.

May52025

How does war damage the environment?

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMay 5, 2025

Ever wondered what the environmental impacts of war are? Read our guide to the many different ways through which armed conflicts and militarism can damage the environment.

Apr222025

In teh left of the image a circular opening to a water well can be seen, the land beyond is arid brown and green under a blue sky. The lower two thirds of a woman can be seen in the right of the image, she is pouring water into jerry cans.

A new political and funding reality for environmental peacebuilding

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsApril 22, 2025

We are in the middle of an unprecedented reconfiguration of global political attitudes towards the humanitarian-environmental sector. In this blog, we document the ramifications of these changes as recorded in a community survey and online meeting in collaboration with the Environmental Peacebuilding Association.

Mar252025

A photo from ground level looks up at soldiers carrying the EU flag in a parade, the flag is lit up by the blue sky and sunny weather above.

Military climate action has never been more urgent, here’s why

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 25, 2025

Ellie Kinney explores why ramping up military spending while military decarbonisation is in its infancy risks locking in carbon-intensive military equipment for decades, why spiralling military spending is placing climate action and our collective security at risk, and what needs to happen next.

Feb172025

This night firing image shows the dark silhouette of the self-propelled artillery in a wooded area. The trees and part so the vehicle are lit up from the flash of the gun muzzle, clouds of gas are coming from each side of the gun and are illuminated white and orange.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are in munitions, and other military applications too

Blog, Military and the environment, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsFebruary 17, 2025

Pressure to ban PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ over their toxicity and environmental persistence is growing but their military applications beyond firefighting foams have received limited attention. Linsey Cottrell explores their broader military uses, and why regulators shouldn’t let militaries keep using them.

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.

Nov62023

On 5 November 2001, the UN General Assembly declared 6 November of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

Global messages marking #EnvConflictDay 2023

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsNovember 6, 2023

To mark the United Nation’s International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment Through War and Armed Conflict 2023 – #EnvConflictDay, we invited friends and colleagues from areas affected by armed conflicts to share a message. Here’s what they wrote. 

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