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The Vatican’s latest encyclical ‘Care for Our Common Home’ has triggered much rejoicing from the environmental movement, and justifiably so, coming as it does in the run up to the latest round of climate change negotiations. But in questioning the global economic order and its depredations on the planetary environment, Pope Francis has also sought to communicate a wide range of problems that have blocked progress on environmental protection.

Jun122015

Judging the civilian and environmental risks of cyber warfare

Blog, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObs June 12, 2015

How much of a threat do cyber attacks on industrial infrastructure pose to civilians and the environment? More to the point, how do we judge the environmental acceptability of new forms of warfare, or current practices for that matter? Doug Weir takes a look.

May152015

Colombia halts aerial coca eradication after WHO Glyphosate cancer ruling

Blog, Colombia, Country, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObs May 15, 2015

Aerial use of Glyphosate herbicides in Colombia prove too controversial after WHO findings on cancer risks.

Mar232015

WHO finds that Glyphosate is probably carcinogenic – implications for Plan Colombia

Blog, Colombia, Country, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObs March 23, 2015

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified the world’s most widely used herbicide Roundup as probably carcinogenic in humans. Roundup is widely used in US supported efforts to destroy poppy and coca fields in Colombia’s long running internal conflict and the decision will add to existing concerns over the health impact of aerial spraying.

Mar172015

Military health surveillance – lessons for post-conflict civilian health monitoring

Blog, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObs March 17, 2015

Military personnel may come across a number of natural and anthropogenic environmental health risks during training, domestic operations and overseas deployment. The response has been to seek to integrate data on environmental risks and exposures into health monitoring programmes. Could these systems help inform approaches aimed at monitoring the risks to civilians from toxic remnants of war?

Feb122015

Towards an integrated approach to the material legacies of war: landmines, explosive remnants of war and environmental contamination

Blog, Law and policy, TopicBy ConEnvObs February 12, 2015

This blog examines how mine action became decoupled from earlier, more holistic approaches to addressing the material legacies of wars, which included environmental harm, and whether it is time for this to be reappraised.

Dec92014

The Australian Defence Force’s approach to contaminated land management

Blog, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObs December 9, 2014

When considering how norms could be developed to ensure that conflict pollution is properly addressed, it is worth examining peacetime norms and standards for military contamination. This blogs takes a look at the approach taken in Australia.

Sep292014

The environmental consequences of targeting Syria’s oil refineries

Blog, Country, Law and policy, Military and the environment, Syria, TopicBy ConEnvObs September 29, 2014

Syria’s oil industry has begun to be targeted by the US. Military policies indicate that the environmental consequences of the strategy are low on the agenda but the move looks set to have direct and indirect impacts on Syria’s environment and people.

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