With wars affecting every corner of the globe and military spending at a record high of $2.7 trillion, 2024 also saw humanity breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree target. In this post Ellie Kinney asks what, if anything, COP30 will deliver on conflict, climate and militarism.
Our 2025 analysis of the military emissions data that countries report to the UNFCCC reveals that reporting is getting worse. Grace Alexander explores how, at a time of growing military spending, the expanding military emissions gap is undermining climate accounting and ambition.
Countries in South Asia are being hard hit by the climate crisis. In this guest post, Usman Ali examines how Pakistan and India’s security choices are leading to increasing military spending and emissions, while undermining human and environmental security.
The scale of environmental devastation caused by armed conflicts and military activities is accelerating humanitarian crises and ecological collapse in ways we can no longer afford to ignore.
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.
This CSF and CEOBS report aims to foster a greater understanding of how the environment interacts with conflict and peace in Sudan. Its findings illustrate that environmental issues remain urgent and critical, with both short- and long-term implications for aid, political engagement and recovery.
This month, representatives from many of the IUCN’s 1,400-strong membership will be in Abu Dhabi for the World Conservation Congress. In this post Doug Weir previews what we can expect on nature, peace and security, and introduces the themes and activities that we and partners have been working on.
The Assad regime’s embrace of Captagon production as a source of sanctions-busting revenue saw Syria become the world’s leading exporter of the drug. In this post, Leon Moreland examines whether we ought to be concerned about the industry’s largely undocumented environmental legacy.
