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Category Archives: Publications

Dec22025

White text on green background reads: Strengthening field environmental management: Assessing the Green Field Tool roll-out in NPA

Strengthening field environmental management: Assessing the Green Field Tool roll-out in NPA

Project One, Projects, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsDecember 2, 2025

NPA and CEOBS study examining the roll-out of the Green Field Tool across NPA mine action programmes in Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The findings highlight both progress and challenges in integrating environmental and climate risk assessments into operations.

Nov252025

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Side event | From policy to practice: Embedding environmental responsibility in mine action programmes

Project One, Projects, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsNovember 25, 2025

Side event on embedding new environmental standards in mine action programmes, our Green Field Tool and on how to respond to growing environmental and climate needs. Run in collaboration with NPA at the 22 Meeting of State Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty.

Nov172025

A graphic from the briefing cover, with the title: Mitigating environmental harm by implementing the EWIPA declaration, and a stylised graphic showing two people fleeing from a blast in front of a cityscape.

Joint briefing: Mitigating environmental harm by implementing the EWIPA declaration

Project One, Projects, Publications, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsNovember 17, 2025

Joint briefing outlining the pathways through which explosive weapons cause environmental harm, with recommendations for governments on how environmental considerations can be integrated into the implementation of the 2022 EWIPA Declaration.

Nov132025

Four Israeli Merkava tanks drive along a sandy track, it is at dawn or dusk, the background is hazy with dust.

Briefing: Accounting for the uncounted – The global climate impact of militaries

Military and the environment, Military emissions publications, Publications, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsNovember 13, 2025

Policy briefing exploring the UNFCCC’s military emissions reporting blind spot, how rising military spending is exacerbating the problem and what needs to be done to address it.

Oct72025

UK military personnel look on as a huge smoke plume rises from a distant ridgeline, a selection of army trucks and off road vehicles are in the foreground.

Briefing: Militaries, armed conflicts, nature and the climate crisis – Entry points for the IUCN

Military and the environment, Military emissions publications, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsOctober 7, 2025

Policy briefing examining the intersection between militaries, armed conflicts, nature and the climate crisis, including military land management, the conduct of hostilities, and post-war recovery policies, with entry points for the IUCN and its members.

Aug262025

Conference title: Environmental Citizen Science in Conflict Zones; the GROMADA project logo; and GROMADA project partner logos

Conference: Environmental citizen science in conflict zones for accountability and empowerment

Project Two, Projects, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsAugust 26, 2025

On Friday October 24th the GROMADA project will be holding an afternoon conference in Copenhagen exploring the potential of citizen science for environmental accountability and empowerment in areas affected by armed conflict, informed by its two-year project on Ukraine.

Jun202025

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The emerging environmental consequences of the Israel-Iran war

Publications, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsJune 20, 2025

A week into the conflict between Israel and Iran we review some of the key environmental issues and trends, moving beyond risks from attacks on nuclear facilities to the wider consequences of both parties’ military conduct.

May292025

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How increasing global military expenditure threatens SDG 13 on Climate action

Military emissions publications, Publications, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsMay 29, 2025

Paper outlining the impact of rising military expenditure on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate action, looking at the following targets: strengthening resilience; national policies and planning; climate finance; and capacity building for effective climate change management.

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