American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023 – conflict and environment sessions
AGU 2023 features three in person, hybrid and remote sessions addressing the environmental consequences of armed conflicts, with a focus on earth observation.
Event: Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding June 19-21, 2024.
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Grotius Center for International Legal Studies at Leiden University have announced that the Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding will be held on June 19-21, 2024.
Reflections on the UK Defence and Climate Change report
A RAF Typhoon takes part in air defence training over the Baltic region in May 2022. The RAF has set an ambitious target to reach net-zero by 2040, but there are no consistent milestone or targets across other UK Commands. (Credit: NATO) The UK House of Commons Defence Committee has released the Defence and Climate…
Conference: Military and conflict GHG emissions – from understanding to mitigation
A one day conference bringing together academia, civil society and industry experts to consider how best to mitigate the military’s contribution to the climate crisis, and how to better understand the emissions footprint of armed conflicts.
Analysis: how NATO should move forward on emissions reporting
Linsey Cottrell assesses NATO’s latest Climate Impact Assessment, its methodology for emissions tracking, and its compendium of best practice on military emissions, providing initial recommendations for how NATO should progress its emissions mitigation activities.
NATO’s GHG emissions tracking methodology – a small step forward?
NATO’s Vilnius summit saw the publication of three new documents on climate action, including its long-awaited Greenhouse Gases Emission Mapping and Analytical Methodology. In this post, Ellie Kinney examines the summit’s climate outputs and their context.
Event | Mine action and the environment in 2023 – the needs, practical steps and ambitions, 21 June 2023
Event at the 2023 Intersessional Meetings of the AP Mine Ban Convention that will set out a vision of the positive contribution mine action can make to environmental safeguarding and climate resilience, providing examples of measures that can be taken at each stage of humanitarian demining operations.
SGR/CEOBS | UK military GHG emissions and the Greening Government Commitments
This paper critically examines UK Ministry of Defence claims over reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its UK military bases. It is found that the MOD is on course to exceed these targets, but that is only because the targets are very weak and undemanding.