NGOs encourage states and other stakeholders to do more to integrate environmental considerations into cluster munition clearance policies ahead of the Second Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Unless we know how the environment has been harmed during conflicts, planning assistance to people and ecosystems is impossible. Could low cost participatory research help plug the current data collection gap in areas affected by conflicts?
Clearing land mines and tackling unexploded ordnance can harm the environment. Together with Norwegian People’s Aid, we surveyed the environmental attitudes and policies of mine action operators to try and identify where their practice could be improved.
The need to improve environmental standards in mine action is particularly clear when working in areas with rich or sensitive ecosystems. Kendra Dupuy and Linsey Cottrell report from their field visit to Colombia and on the challenges mainstreaming faces there.
A recent workshop co-hosted by NPA, CEOBS and The HALO Trust demonstrated the growing interest in the need to mainstream the environment and climate change in mine action. In this blog, Linsey Cottrell and Kendra Dupuy report on the outcomes from the event in Geneva.
Side event on environmental mainstreaming in humanitarian mine action, co-organised by Norwegian People’s Aid, CEOBS and the HALO Trust. Feb 12th 2020, Geneva.
Clearing land mines and explosive remnants of war can also harm the environment. In a joint project, CEOBS is working with Norwegian People’s Aid to try and identify how this harm can be reduced. Kendra Dupuy and Linsey Cottrell share their thoughts as they begin the project.
Paper by CEOBS, Goldsmiths University of London and King’s College London on the potential of civilian science – participatory citizen science methodologies – for environmental data collection in areas affected by armed conflicts.
