Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS)

CEOBS provides a voice for our environment - and those who depend upon it - when it faces harm from armed conflicts and military activities.

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

1/ We've just launched WISEN, our remote environmental assessment methodology for conflict areas. We've used it for #Ukraine, #Sudan and #Iran and the region but our dream is to work towards a comprehensive global system for all conflict areas. 🧵

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

Conflict-affected countries are hit harder and suffer more deaths when disasters strike, yet armed conflicts remain underdressed in #DRR frameworks.

Our latest explores why the time is right for a new post-Sendai peacebuilding-DRR agenda https://t.co/XKJwhL4Fg7

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Studying how humans and wildlife interact with minefields is key to identifying policies that minimise the impact of clearance on nature.

Here, MMU's Franciany Braga-Pereira explains what she found using drones to survey animals in Angolan minefields: https://t.co/R5FOa2vTrb

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

Studying how humans and wildlife interact with minefields is key to identifying policies that minimise the impact of clearance on nature.

Here, MMU's Franciany Braga-Pereira explains what she found using drones to survey animals in Angolan minefields: https://t.co/R5FOa2vTrb

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

We're looking forward to this XCEPT event tomorrow on wartime environmental damage, Doug and our trustee @sndeall will be on the panel. It's hybrid from London and there's still time to register https://t.co/VxfBjLnzSx

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Integrating environmental considerations into #MineAction is no longer optional — it’s essential.

Learn about our training to help mine action organisations meet the requirements of the updated IMAS 07.13 on Environmental Management and Climate Change: https://t.co/ZqlbGDMAfv

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2/2 And your regular reminder that military #PFAS use is not restricted to firefighting foams, it's far wider, including many conventional munitions.
https://t.co/REq817mD9i

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UK: Silent on #military #PFAS use.
EU: Considering phase out of military use.
Australia: We're suing 3M for $2bn.
https://t.co/tTxmFtz30W

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

2/2 Dig deeper? You can the read the full study here https://t.co/wGxUitMa6T

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

1/2 Communicating the scale of conflict pollution incidents can be a challenge, here researchers examining the oil fires in Tehran liken them to a volcano. The fires were the result of Israeli airstrikes and exposed huge numbers of civilians to pollutants https://t.co/qhtMXwoiVk

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

1/ We've just launched WISEN, our remote environmental assessment methodology for conflict areas. We've used it for #Ukraine, #Sudan and #Iran and the region but our dream is to work towards a comprehensive global system for all conflict areas. 🧵

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

5/ To learn more about WISEN, how it works and why we need more systematic and geographically representative environmental data collection in areas affected by conflicts, read our introduction: https://t.co/MzvFgrjPFG

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

1/ We've just launched WISEN, our remote environmental assessment methodology for conflict areas. We've used it for #Ukraine, #Sudan and #Iran and the region but our dream is to work towards a comprehensive global system for all conflict areas. 🧵

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

4/ And that vision? If WISEN or something like it covered all conflicts, populated and maintained by a distributed network of researchers, NGOs and communities, it could radically change how we prioritise and respond to environmental damage, protecting people and ecosystems.

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

May 21 - join us as we launch a remote environmental monitoring methodology for conflict areas, and explore the role of remote data for assessment, advocacy and accountability.

How we can build more comprehensive environmental monitoring? https://t.co/kZVvmjnZ2J

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

May 21 - join us as we launch a remote environmental monitoring methodology for conflict areas, and explore the role of remote data for assessment, advocacy and accountability.

How we can build more comprehensive environmental monitoring? https://t.co/kZVvmjnZ2J

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

1/ A new oil spill is visible from #Iran's #KhargIsland, this time from a shoreline discharge point on its east coast creating a ~5km slick stretching 700m offshore; no similar spills visible during last 6 months. Coincidence, indicative of stress on the critical oil terminal?

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

2/ After last week's spill #Iran claimed it had not identified “even ​the smallest trace” of leakage;
@CopernicusData imagery suggests otherwise. Is the denial a sign of sensitivity over the facility, or just a kneejerk response to criticism? https://t.co/PjMKOH70U1

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

1/ A new oil spill is visible from #Iran's #KhargIsland, this time from a shoreline discharge point on its east coast creating a ~5km slick stretching 700m offshore; no similar spills visible during last 6 months. Coincidence, indicative of stress on the critical oil terminal?