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Category Archives: External Content

Oct72025

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The environment, conflict and peace in Sudan: from response to recovery

Law and policy, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsOctober 7, 2025

This CSF and CEOBS report aims to foster a greater understanding of how the environment interacts with conflict and peace in Sudan. Its findings illustrate that environmental issues remain urgent and critical, with both short- and long-term implications for aid, political engagement and recovery.

Jul162025

A wood-paneled parliamentary committee room, in which 10 people are seated in discussion around a large U-shaped table. Behind them to one side are five more people at two smaller tables. In the centre of the U, two large screens display three remote participants in the meeting. One of the women participants is also shown speaking in an inset in the corner of the image.

CEOBS gives evidence on military PFAS use at parliamentary hearing

Blog, Law and policy, Military and the environment, Military and the environment, Slider, TopicBy Simon WatkinsJuly 16, 2025

Attention on the military uses of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ is largely restricted to firefighting foams, in our evidence to a UK parliamentary hearing on PFAS we argued that more research is urgently needed on releases from applications such as munitions.

Feb92024

HLWG | An environmental compact for Ukraine

Country, External Content, UkraineBy ConEnvObsFebruary 9, 2024

With 50 recommendations across three priority areas: monitoring, accountability and recovery, this compact by the High Level Working Group on the Environment Consequences of the War maps out environmental priorities for Ukraine.

Feb22024

KAS and SLDP | Business responsibility towards the environment and human rights in Syria

Country, External Content, SyriaBy ConEnvObsFebruary 2, 2024

Report with recommendations examining the role that local authorities and the private sector have in protecting environmental human rights in Syria.

Oct272023

UNEP | Rapid environmental assessment of Kakhovka Dam breach Ukraine, 2023

Country, External Content, UkraineBy ConEnvObsOctober 27, 2023

The assessment encompasses damage caused both upstream and downstream, including hydrological and geomorphic impacts, chemical contamination, waste, and ecological damage, including to protected areas.

Oct252023

YPC | Rising temperatures, falling resources: Climate change impacts on Yemen’s agrarian and coastal communities

Country, External Content, YemenBy ConEnvObsOctober 25, 2023

This report focuses on two districts in Yemen which have been particularly affected by climate change and are likely to suffer further consequences in the future: Hajar district, Hadhramaut, and Tawahi district, Aden.

Sep202023

Commentary: Who cares about the environment in war?

Blog, Law and policy, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsSeptember 20, 2023

CEOBS and the PAX Environment, Peace, and Security Project jointly received 2023’s Al-Moumin Award from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Accepting the award on CEOBS’ behalf, Doug Weir discusses how CEOBS works to challenge the status of the environment as a silent victim in conflicts.

Aug182023

ICRC | State expert meeting on IHL: protecting the environment in armed conflicts

External Content, Law and policy, TopicBy ConEnvObsAugust 18, 2023

Chair’s summary of a state meeting in early 2023 that reviewed the measures that militaries could take to reduce their impact on the environment,

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