Mine action can promote biodiversity goals in conflict-affected areas
Joint submission to the Convention on Biological Diversity explaining how mine action can help to promote global biodiversity goals in fragile and conflict-affected areas.
The IPCC’S missing military emissions
The IPCC’s failure to mention military or conflict emissions in its recent synthesis report points to a deeper problem. Ellie Kinney explains why solving it will require a concerted effort from states, researchers and civil society.
Have EU military “greening” policies had any effect?
In this blog, Linsey Cottrell summarises the key findings from our report into the state of “greening” policies across EU militaries.
Report: EU military greening policies: A review of transparency and implementation
Report mapping out EU military environmental policies and “greening” initiatives, including the extent to which environmental performance reporting is made publicly available. The review also draws on direct feedback from EU defence ministries on their environmental policies, as well as from other stakeholders with an interest in military environmental policy.
The COP where we began talking about conflict emissions
Ellie Kinney landed at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh on a mission to advocate for better reporting of military greenhouse gas emissions, here’s what she found.
Reverberating civilian and environmental harm from explosive weapons use in Gaza
In a collaboration between Airwars and CEOBS, we explore the immediate and reverberating consequences of the use explosive weapons during the 11 day conflict in Gaza in May 2021.
Liberals and conservatives block military emissions call in European Parliament
Ellie Kinney explores how liberal and conservative MEPs blocked an initiative that would have contributed towards improving European military emissions reporting in the run up to COP27.
New estimate: global military is responsible for more emissions than Russia
As the impact of the climate crisis continues to grow, rapid emissions cuts are becoming ever more urgent. Our new report finds that militaries may be responsible for 5.5% of global emissions – a proportion so great that it can no longer be ignored.