By excluding people, minefields can reduce pressure from human activities. With governments obliged to clear mines and explosive remnants of war, understanding how their presence and removal influences biodiversity is critical. In this post, Dr Franciany Braga-Pereira describes what she and her team discovered studying minefield refugia in Angola.
CEOBS offers specialist training and consultancy to help mine action organisations meet the requirements of the updated IMAS 07.13 on Environmental Management and Climate Change.
As governments gather in Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels amid ongoing wars, fragile ceasefires, spiralling military spending and a global energy crisis, Ellie Kinney explains why militaries must be part of any future energy transition framework.
Elaine Donderer reports on the first in-person event of the European Citizen Science Association’s new working group on citizen science in areas affected by armed conflicts, which took place at the Association’s 2026 conference at the University of Oulu, Finland.
A month into the Israeli-US war against Iran we summarise current and emerging conflict trends and their potential implications for people and the environment.
The war against Iran is disrupting global fossil fuel supply chains and, while states increasingly recognise that renewables reduce exposure to geopolitical shocks, Grace Alexander finds that there are dangers that emergency energy policies are chosen that lock-in emissions and energy insecurity.
Grace Alexander explains why exempting military products from the EU’s new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) undermines the bloc’s industrial decarbonisation goals and demonstrates a disconnect between its climate and defence policies.
NPA and CEOBS study examining the roll-out of the Green Field Tool across NPA mine action programmes in Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The findings highlight both progress and challenges in integrating environmental and climate risk assessments into operations.
