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.
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.
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.
Event: Closing the Global Stocktake’s military and conflict emissions gap
Bonn Climate Change Conference side event on how the UNFCCC’s Global Stocktake could help close the military and conflict emissions gap.
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.