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Category Archives: Publications

Jun152022

Report: Facing fallout: Principles for environmental remediation of nuclear weapons contamination

Law and policy, Project One, Publications, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsJune 15, 2022

Facing Fallout identifies 19 principles for remediating the environment contaminated by nuclear weapons; it also includes a commentary that elaborates on the principles and provides legal and policy precedent for each.

Apr262022

This summary figure gives an overview of the study and is titled “Tigray’s landscape restoration threatened” and accompanied by the descriptive text “Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing a successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services. Our research suggests these gains are threatened by the ongoing conflict. Using satellite data to cut through the information blackout, we found evidence of conflict-driven deforestation and a slowing in vegetation recovery. This is threatening to undermine gains in water and soil conservation, ultimately adding additional pressure on agricultural productivity against a backdrop of conflict and climate change.” This text tells the story of the visualisation below, which is a timeline with four epochs: before the 1980’s ‘land degradation’, 1990-2020 ‘land restoration’, November 2020 ‘war’, and post-conflict ‘?’. There are photographs of a degraded and restored landscape, satellite imagery of deforestation since the start of the war, and two map graphics – one showing the density of woody vegetation coverage pre-conflict, and another showing the hotspots of woody vegetation loss since the start of the conflict.

Report: The war in Tigray is undermining its environmental recovery

Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsApril 26, 2022

Report exploring how the war in Tigray is undoing decades of landscape level environmental restoration, with long-term implications for food security. The study also examines the potential role of nature-based solutions in buffering communities during conflict, and in supporting recovery.

Mar82022

Report: State positions on the ILC’s draft PERAC principles after first reading

Law and policy, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsMarch 8, 2022

The International Law Commission’s project to strengthen the law protecting the environment in relation to armed conflicts concludes in 2022. This report analyses the written comments of 24 states as we approach second reading of the principles, ahead of their adoption.

Dec152021

Report: Environmental CSR reporting by the arms industry

Military and the environment, Military emissions publications, Publications, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsDecember 15, 2021

In this report, Leonie Nimmo and Hana Manjusak examine the environmental Corporate Social Responsibility reporting of some of the world’s biggest arms companies, and discover that it may be far more useful than you might think.

Nov62021

Report: Is South Sudan’s Sudd wetland at a fork in the road?

Country, Publications, Slider, South SudanBy ConEnvObsNovember 6, 2021

South Sudan’s Sudd wetlands are crucial for regulating water and climate, and for the habitats and resources they provide, but oil production and hydropolitics are threatening their survival. Eoghan Darbyshire looks at the choices the government needs to make.

Oct82021

UN General Assembly First Committee statement on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts

Law and policy, Publications, Slider, TopicBy ConEnvObsOctober 8, 2021

16 NGOs urge states at the UN General Assembly to mainstream the environment in the work of its First Committee, and beyond.

Sep242021

Report: The past, present and future of the Mesopotamian marshes

Country, Iraq, Publications, SliderBy ConEnvObsSeptember 24, 2021

This report presents new visualisation-led perspectives on the Mesopotamian marshes, exploring the scale of the Marsh Arabs’ cultural erasure, the contemporary threats from pollution, fire, saltwater intrusion and the oil industry, and how their ecosystem services could mitigate a heating climate.

Jul132021

Report: Protected area conservation in Yemen’s conflict

Country, Publications, Slider, YemenBy ConEnvObsJuly 13, 2021

Our report examines the impact that the conflict in Yemen is having on its protected areas by exploring the fate of five of them, we identify multiple pressures that are being caused or worsened by the conflict.

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