COP29 side event: Measuring climate impacts across the cycle of armed conflicts
COP29 side event on 18 November will present new conflict emissions tracking methodology informed by research on Ukraine and Gaza.
Webinar: Addressing war-linked threats to water in Ukraine 6-11-24
This webinar will show how the war is influencing water quality in Ukraine and about how water needs and threats may change over time, both in respect to Ukraine’s recovery but also as a result of climate change and future regulatory alignment with the European Union.
Conservation policies must address an overlooked issue: how war affects the environment
The Colombian presidency of COP16 and its Paz Con La Naturaleza initiative is a huge opportunity to begin to integrate peace and security considerations into the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, to encourage research and to operationalise the Convention on Biological Diversity to support biodiversity protection in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
Has climate securitisation obstructed military decarbonisation?
In this post Doug Weir examines whether framing the climate crisis primarily as a security threat slowed the growth of the partnerships and public consent needed to support rapid military decarbonisation.
Запрошуємо команди на хакатон з питань якості води в Україні
Ми запрошуємо студентів та викладачів українських та закордонних вищих навчальних закладів, а також громадських активістів, до участі в онлайн-хакатоні 13-14 листопада, на якому учасники винаходитимуть рішення у сфері громадянської науки, що стосуватимуться випадків шкоди, спричиненої бойовими діями, які вплинули на якість води в громадах України.
Teams needed for Ukraine water quality hackathon
We are looking for Ukrainian and international university students, teaching staff and activists to participate in an online hackathon on November 13-14th 2024 to identify citizen science solutions for war-related incidents that have impacted water quality in Ukrainian communities.
The environmental costs of the escalating Middle East crisis
A year of escalating conflict across the Middle East has had a range of direct and reverberating consequences for the region’s environment. In this post we identify the current and emerging trends that are threatening human health and often fragile and degraded ecosystems.
New data on Agent Orange use during the US’s Secret War in Laos
Successive US governments have been reluctant to come clean over the human and environmental cost of the secret war in Laos. This report shows how declassified spy satellite imagery can now help us track potential dioxin exposures from the use of Agent Orange in the country.