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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. 

Nov22023

Name cards from the participants for session one of the conference showing the diverse backgrounds of the speakers - academia, civil society and the military.

Lessons from the first Military Emissions Gap Conference

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsNovember 2, 2023

CEOBS’ Military Emissions Campaigner Ellie Kinney reflects on the first Military Emissions Gap conference, which brought together academia, civil society and military representatives to discuss military and conflict greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Jan242023

Have EU military “greening” policies had any effect?

Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsJanuary 24, 2023

In this blog, Linsey Cottrell summarises the key findings from our report into the state of “greening” policies across EU militaries.

Dec152022

The COP where we began talking about conflict emissions

Blog, Blog, Military and the environment, Military emissions blogs, Projects, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsDecember 15, 2022

Ellie Kinney landed at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh on a mission to advocate for better reporting of military greenhouse gas emissions, here’s what she found.

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