Climate change is already affecting areas contaminated by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Linsey Cottrell explains the key issues, and how the mine action sector should prepare and adopt newly published environmental guidance.
Part 1 of a joint open source investigation by the Ukrainian Archive and CEOBS into the recurring Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, which focuses on air pollution and examines the applicable legal framework.
CEOBS has been remotely tracking and assessing environmentally-relevant incidents in Ukraine since February 2022. We share our data with relevant stakeholders, it informs our research and advocacy activities, and it is our hope that the dataset will also contribute to Ukraine’s green recovery. We’ve now used it to create an interactive map.
COP28 agreed that countries must submit new NDCs by February 2025. These national plans for climate action are important but at present military emissions are largely absent from them. As Linsey Cottrell finds, failing to include them this year could delay their inclusion until 2030.
Since February 2022, Ukraine has sought to attract international investment and political partnerships by licensing deposits of critical minerals. In this analysis, Iryna Babanina and Rob Watson examine how the demands of the conflict, economy and recovery are exacerbating the threats that their exploitation could pose for Ukraine’s environment.
Joint statement on behalf of 13 organisations on food security and mine action, delivered at the 27th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers, Geneva.
Joint statement on the need to address the environmental dimensions of the use of EWIPA delivered at the 2024 Oslo Conference on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
Summary of a joint project with NPA to assess the presence and likely extent of soil pollution and wider environmental and socio-economic harm from explosive weapons use in two areas of Ukraine.
