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Category Archives: Law and policy

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.

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.

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. 

Mar82023

IWD23 Protecting women environmental defenders in conflict

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 8, 2023

In this International Women’s Day blog, Peixuan Xie argues that major changes are needed in policy and practice to better protect women environmental defenders working in conflict-affected areas.

Dec82022

States agree new legal framework on the environmental impact of war

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

States have formally adopted a set of 27 legal principles intended to enhance the protection of the environment throughout the cycle of armed conflicts, marking the end of a 10-year process and with it the most significant advance in the legal framework since the 1970s.

Sep142022

States to adopt new legal framework on war and the environment

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsSeptember 14, 2022

Lawyers and states have been working on the PERAC framework for more than a decade, this October it will be adopted at the UN General Assembly.

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.

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