Joint statement: Mine action and food security
Joint statement on behalf of 13 organisations on food security and mine action, delivered at the 27th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers, Geneva.
Joint statement: The importance of addressing the environmental consequences from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas
Joint statement on the need to address the environmental dimensions of the use of EWIPA delivered at the 2024 Oslo Conference on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
Project summary: Analysing the environmental impacts of explosive weapons use in Ukraine
Summary of a joint project with NPA to assess the presence and likely extent of soil pollution and wider environmental and socio-economic harm from explosive weapons use in two areas of Ukraine.
Workshop: Exploring the environmental data ecosystem for citizen science in Ukraine
Workshop examining the potential role of citizen science and civic monitoring as part of Ukraine’s environmental recovery.
Ticking boxes: are military climate mitigation strategies fit for purpose?
Militaries are increasingly publishing climate mitigation strategies, so we’ve developed checklists to evaluate them. In this post Linsey Cottrell introduces the checklists, and also compares military decarbonisation with another challenging sector: healthcare.
Checklists for assessing military emissions mitigation strategies and reporting
Easy to use checklists that allow users to judge the likely effectiveness or military climate mitigation strategies and the quality of emissions reporting.
Does reporting military emissions data really threaten national security?
In this post, Linsey Cottrell explore whether it is credible for states to refuse to report their military emissions on the grounds of national security.
“Always money for war”, reflecting on COP28
Ellie Kinney reflects on the role that militaries played in COP28, whether behind closed doors, centre stage, or by their absence, and on the prospects for international action on military and conflict emissions at COP29.