Climate change is already affecting areas contaminated by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Linsey Cottrell explains the key issues, and how the mine action sector should prepare and adopt newly published environmental guidance.
COP28 agreed that countries must submit new NDCs by February 2025. These national plans for climate action are important but at present military emissions are largely absent from them. As Linsey Cottrell finds, failing to include them this year could delay their inclusion until 2030.
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 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.
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 examining the potential role of citizen science and civic monitoring as part of Ukraine’s environmental recovery.
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.
Easy to use checklists that allow users to judge the likely effectiveness or military climate mitigation strategies and the quality of emissions reporting.
