Joint statement: Mine action and food security
Joint statement on behalf of 13 organisations on food security and mine action, delivered at the 27th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers, Geneva.
Joint statement: The importance of addressing the environmental consequences from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas
Joint statement on the need to address the environmental dimensions of the use of EWIPA delivered at the 2024 Oslo Conference on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
Project summary: Analysing the environmental impacts of explosive weapons use in Ukraine
Summary of a joint project with NPA to assess the presence and likely extent of soil pollution and wider environmental and socio-economic harm from explosive weapons use in two areas of Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
Explosive weapons use and the environmental consequences: Mapping environmental incidents in Ukraine
Using the example of Ukraine, this paper explores how remote data collection and data from mine action operations can be used to better address the environmental consequences of the use of explosive weapons.
Event | Embedding environmental protection and alignment with the Lausanne Action Plan 31.08.22
Online side event as part of the 10th Meeting of State Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions that examines how mine action operators can meet and exceed the environmental requirements of the Lausanne Action Plan.