CEOBS and the PAX Environment, Peace, and Security Project jointly received 2023’s Al-Moumin Award from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Accepting the award on CEOBS’ behalf, Doug Weir discusses how CEOBS works to challenge the status of the environment as a silent victim in conflicts.
A RAF Typhoon takes part in air defence training over the Baltic region in May 2022. The RAF has set an ambitious target to reach net-zero by 2040, but there are no consistent milestone or targets across other UK Commands. (Credit: NATO) The UK House of Commons Defence Committee has released the Defence and Climate…
A one day conference bringing together academia, civil society and industry experts to consider how best to mitigate the military’s contribution to the climate crisis, and how to better understand the emissions footprint of armed conflicts.
Following the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, CEOBS was asked by UNEP to provide an initial assessment of the potential risks to the environment. Leon Moreland introduces the findings of our rapid analysis, situating them in the wider environmental context of the disaster.
Linsey Cottrell assesses NATO’s latest Climate Impact Assessment, its methodology for emissions tracking, and its compendium of best practice on military emissions, providing initial recommendations for how NATO should progress its emissions mitigation activities.
NATO’s Vilnius summit saw the publication of three new documents on climate action, including its long-awaited Greenhouse Gases Emission Mapping and Analytical Methodology. In this post, Ellie Kinney examines the summit’s climate outputs and their context.
CEOBS recognised for its thought leadership in monitoring and communicating the environmental dimensions of armed conflict and military activities in order to inform policy change.
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.
