This report analyses how governments address military emissions and armed conflict impacts in UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions, the national climate plans that all countries have to submit to the UNFCCC. Military emissions are missing from mitigation plans, while conflict affected countries are increasingly highlighting the obstacle they pose.
Our new Military Emissions Gap dataset reveals that, in the face of the accelerating climate crisis and rising military spending, military emissions reporting to the UNFCCC is getting worse. Many countries reporting is becoming less transparent and we show how countries like COP host Türkiye are making their military emissions disappear in the paperwork.
The process of environmental mainstreaming in mine action has been underway for several years. Anna McKean and Jonathan Walsh explain how a new action plan for the Convention on Cluster Munitions would both reflect and encourage this process.
Rebekah Harries introduces WISEN WATCH: our new citizen science tool that allows anyone to help us remotely track and assess wartime environmental damage.
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.
