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Category Archives: Military and the environment

May42021

NCWES | Sustainable peace and security in a changing climate

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsMay 4, 2021

116 recommendations developed by a civil society collaboration to improve NATO’s environmental performance and policies.

May192020

SGR | The environmental impacts of the UK military sector

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsMay 19, 2020

Report detailing the environmental footprint of UK military activities and operations, the UK arms industry and the potential environmental impact of the use of the UK’s nuclear weapons.

Mar232020

NDC | Scoping NATO’s environmental security agenda

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 23, 2020

Policy brief by NATO’s Defence College on its developing environmental security agenda, which covers conflict risks, reducing harm in operations, how climate change will alter operations and impact bases, and on what role NATO should play in addressing and responding to these issues.

Nov182019

NATO | Environmental protection: NATO policies and national views

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsNovember 18, 2019

NATO and its member states are reacting to growing international pressure to reduce the environmental consequences of conflicts, this compilation of articles provides examples of this response.

Jun242019

SIPRI | Climate change, peacebuilding and sustaining peace

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 24, 2019

Policy brief which shows that eight of the 10 countries hosting the largest multilateral peace operations in 2018 were located in areas highly exposed to climate change, yet international efforts to build and maintain peace are not yet taking these emerging challenges systematically into account.

Jun122019

Costs of War Project | Pentagon fuel use, Climate Change, and the costs of war

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 12, 2019

A paper examining US military fuel use for the post 9-11 wars, which finds that the Department of Defense emits more CO2 than many countries with advanced economies.

Apr182018

IPI | The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsApril 18, 2018

This report looks at the environmental impact of peace operations and how the UN has responded, including through policies and guidelines, dedicated staff, and training material. In particular, it assesses the challenges the Department of Field Support faces in implementing its Environment Strategy.

Feb192018

New Security Beat | Climate Change Will Further Complicate the Politics of U.S. Military Bases

External Content, Military and the environment, TopicBy ConEnvObsFebruary 19, 2018

The military has been quicker than some to grasp the problems that climate change might cause, but until recently, this hadn’t looked closer to home, and at their many installations around the world.

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Exploring the murky, complex and sanctions busting world of phosphate exports to the EU from #Syria

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‘Blood money‘: Europe‘s secretive trade in Syrian phosphates

Hidden imports provide economic lifeline to Assad and funds for a Russian oligarch under EU sanctions

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Hang on.
The emissions cuts #NATO pledged only applied to it as an institution, not to its members.🧐
And why won't they publish the methodology used to calculate them? 🧐 #ClimateEmergency
#NATOSummit

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NATO won’t say how it will count its carbon emissions - CEOBS

NATO has pledged to reduce its Greenhouse gas emissions but it won't release the methodology that it will use to count them.

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Imagery from @Planet of the #Lysychansk Oil Refinery in #Ukraine on 29/06 show a marked intensification of the fires that have affected the site, with oil storage tanks ablaze and a plume at least 40km long.

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Just revisiting a 2015 report of ours on how post-conflict environmental assistance and accountability could be strengthened; how would the structure we proposed deal with #Ukraine and the SAFER oil tanker? https://ceobs.org/environmental-mechanics-re-imagining-post-conflict-environmental-assistance #PERAC

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Voices like @JohnAkec are opposed, as is #SouthSudan's environment ministry. The project would devastate #biodiversity and livelihoods, have a regional impact on climate and rainfall, and generate huge GHG emissions as the Sudd peatland dries out. #COP27

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With financial backing from #Egypt the government of #SouthSudan is looking to restart a hugely damaging project to drain the #Sudd wetland, with the water diverted to Egypt 1/2 #COP27

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Will a Nile Canal Project Dry Up Africa’s Largest Wetland?

South Sudan is moving ahead with plans for a 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it ...

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