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Category Archives: Blog

Oct122020

Landmines and the environment – can we do better?

Blog, Project One, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsOctober 12, 2020

In this piece, Linsey Cottrell and Kendra Dupuy provide an overview of the relationship between humanitarian mine action and the environment, examining both how mines and mine action can impact the environment, and how environmental change can influence mine action.

Aug252020

Mine action land release policies should promote nature-based solutions

Blog, Blog, Project One, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsAugust 25, 2020

Mine action operators could help to address the climate and biodiversity crises as part of releasing land back to local communities, and re-greening projects in Africa and elsewhere show how this could be done writes Linsey Cottrell.

Jul152020

Tajikistan shows why humanitarian disarmament must adapt to climate change

Blog, Project One, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsJuly 15, 2020

Climate change is already influencing humanitarian mine action activities. The experience of Tajikistan is an example of how humanitarian disarmament practices and policies may need to change in response.

Jul82020

Can citizen science help close the environmental monitoring gap in conflicts?

Blog, Project Two, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsJuly 8, 2020

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?

Apr272020

Survey of environmental practices in mine action

Blog, Project One, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 27, 2020

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.

Mar172020

Colombia: approaching mine action in a country rich in biodiversity

Blog, Blog, Colombia, Country, Project One, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsMarch 17, 2020

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.

Feb212020

Environmental mainstreaming at the 23rd National Mine Action Directors and UN Advisers meeting

Blog, Blog, Project One, Projects, SliderBy ConEnvObsFebruary 21, 2020

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.

Jan82020

Beginning our environmental mainstreaming in mine action journey

Blog, Project One, SliderBy ConEnvObsJanuary 8, 2020

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.

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.@FaunaFloraInt on work with the community to protect a newly declared nature reserve in #SouthSudan, under pressure from illegal resource extraction and other unsustainable subsistence activities driven by extreme poverty and food insecurity. https://phys.org/news/2021-02-area-relieves-pressure-primates-pangolins.html

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Spot of climate dissonance today. This morning @ResponsibleSci told our report launch that France, the largest military CO2 emitter in the EU doesn't report its emissions. This afternoon, Macron in the #UNSC loudly promoting #ClimateSecurity.

Time to move beyond rhetoric.

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@Andy_Scollick They're nothing if not consistent in their reluctance to cite a wider range of conflicts in this context.

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