Four years of data from our WISEN-Ukraine database documents environmental harm from Russia’s full-scale invasion that is widespread, severe, diverse and cumulative. Here we examine what’s been damaged, and when, how harm has built up in particular locations, and release the dataset to support recovery, research and accountability.
Joint civil society statement on the environment, peace and security delivered to the UN General Assembly’s First Committee that challenges the forum to fully engage on the environmental dimensions of the peace, security and disarmament topics on its agenda.
This report analyses how governments address military emissions and armed conflict impacts in UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions, the national climate plans that all countries have to submit to the UNFCCC. Military emissions are missing from mitigation plans, while conflict affected countries are increasingly highlighting the obstacle they pose.
Article36 is exploring the concept of the full protection of civilians, protection not constrained by the limits of international humanitarian law, such as its focus on immediate harms. This paper, prepared for their study, explores the environmental consequences of conflict and situates them within this evolving concept.
Narrowly interpreting the relationships between nature and security and prioritising the national security of a few risks repeating past environmental securitisation mistakes, doing little to address the drivers of biodiversity loss. This briefing explores what a more holistic approach to nature, peace and security should encompass, and offers recommendations for its development.
CEOBS offers specialist training and consultancy to help mine action organisations meet the requirements of the updated IMAS 07.13 on Environmental Management and Climate Change.
We believe that a more systematic and comprehensive approach to monitoring environmental change in areas affected by conflicts could radically improve how damage is understood, perceived and addressed. Here we introduce our contribution to that vision, our Wartime IncidentS to ENvironment Database, or WISEN.
This webinar will introduce CEOBS’ Wartime IncidentS to ENvironment (WISEN) methodology, explore how we have used it for research on Ukraine, Sudan and Iran, discuss how data can be used for different purposes, and consider future opportunities to improve documentation.
