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Conflict and Environment Observatory
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CEOBS is a UK charity that provides a voice for our environment - and those who depend upon it - when it faces harm from armed conflicts and military activities. Our military and conflict greenhouse gas emissions project is @militaryemissions.org
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
In a new report with @csfsudan.bsky.social we show how environmental issues remain urgent and critical in #Sudan, with implications for aid, political engagement and recovery: ceobs.org/the-environm... 1/7 #EyesOnSudan
The environment, conflict and peace in Sudan: from response to recovery - CEOBS
How the environment interacts with conflict and peace in Sudan, and the implications for aid, political engagement and recovery.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
In a new report with @csfsudan.bsky.social we show how environmental issues remain urgent and critical in #Sudan, with implications for aid, political engagement and recovery: ceobs.org/the-environm... 1/7 #EyesOnSudan
The environment, conflict and peace in Sudan: from response to recovery - CEOBS
How the environment interacts with conflict and peace in Sudan, and the implications for aid, political engagement and recovery.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
Finally, that the environment, climate resilience and sustainable natural resource management must form a key pillar of an eventual transition to peace that embeds a green recovery. The full report is available here: ceobs.org/the-environm... 7/7
The environment, conflict and peace in Sudan: from response to recovery - CEOBS
How the environment interacts with conflict and peace in Sudan, and the implications for aid, political engagement and recovery.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
And that the aid sector in #Sudan – including practitioners, policy makers and donors – should ensure that environmental and climate change considerations are integrated into humanitarian, development and peacebuilding strategies and programming. 6/7
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
We find that understanding the environmental dimensions of conflict and peace is foundational for #peacebuilding strategies in #Sudan, and that Sudanese civil society should be better supported to sustain their critical roles on environmental issues and in peacebuilding. 5/7
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
We identify immediate actions that can be taken to support the aid response, and a range of entry points for how Sudanese expertise can best be supported to prepare for the long road ahead. 4/7
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
Environmental issues are highly relevant for humanitarian crises. Increased environmental pressures - including #ClimateChange - will contribute to a worse humanitarian outlook, undermine resilience and increase conflict risk. 3/7
A complex map of Sudan showing the areas most affected by conflict and by climate risks, and trends of human displacement. Six boxes surround the map with highlights of wartime environmental incidents and trends: water and energy infrastructure damage; biodiversity and forest loss; gold mining; Arba'at dam collapse; oil refinery fire; and crop loss in Gezira.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
We explore how environmental pressures had increased prior to the current war, and how the environment and its resources - like gold, oil, land and water - play an important role in conflict at the local and national levels, and drive external interests. 2/7
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
In a new report with @csfsudan.bsky.social we show how environmental issues remain urgent and critical in #Sudan, with implications for aid, political engagement and recovery: ceobs.org/the-environm... 1/7 #EyesOnSudan
The environment, conflict and peace in Sudan: from response to recovery - CEOBS
How the environment interacts with conflict and peace in Sudan, and the implications for aid, political engagement and recovery.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
Important report from @greenpeace.org on how Russia's war has manifested in its domestic environmental conduct as well as in its international relations.

It's so important to look beyond the battlefield to how conflict shapes the environmental behaviour of belligerents far from the frontline.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 2d
Russia is in a spiral toward a terminal war economy 'troika' of extractivism, authoritarianism and war - groundbreaking new report sourced by experts from outside Russia defies a Kremlin crackdown on NGOs following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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Report front cover: 'Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin's Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability' - with a picture of smoke rising into the sky of Norilsk, Russia's most polluted city, and graffiti reading 'No Happiness'
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 1d
#NewZealand's #military will pay #Samoa in full to compensate it for the damage caused after one of its navy survey vessels ran aground on a reef and sank a year ago.

The wreck of the #Manawanui remains at the site of the sinking but is not releasing oil. apnews.com/article/new-...
New Zealand will compensate Samoa $3.6M for a navy ship wreck a year after the vessel sank
New Zealand has agreed to pay $3.6 million in compensation to Samoa a year after a after a navy ship ran aground on a reef.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 4d
Heading to the #IUCN World Conservation Congress next week?

Here's our preview with a roundup of the motions and sessions bridging conflicts and conservation.
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Preview: Nature, peace and security at the World Conservation Congress - CEOBS
What we can expect on nature, peace and security at this month's IUCN World Conservation Congress and what has CEOBS been working on?
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 5d
What impact do #drugs have on the environment?

How about if they are being made in a war zone, with government backing, and on an industrial scale?

Our latest post looks at the environmental legacy of Captagon production in #Syria; it's a wild story.

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
Assad’s embrace of #Captagon production saw #Syria become the world’s leading exporter of the drug. In our new post we examine whether we ought to be concerned about the industry’s largely undocumented environmental legacy: ceobs.org/pills-and-po... 1/4
Pills and pollution: Captagon production in Syria - CEOBS
Wartime Syria was the world’s leading producer of Captagon, should we be concerned about the pollution left behind?
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 6d
Armed conflicts harm ecosystems and create and sustain the economic, social and governance systems that drive #biodiversity loss and impair conservation activities.

We preview the motions and events on this theme at next week's #IUCN Congress ceobs.org/preview-natu...
Preview: Nature, peace and security at the World Conservation Congress - CEOBS
What we can expect on nature, peace and security at this month's IUCN World Conservation Congress and what has CEOBS been working on?
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
Assad’s embrace of #Captagon production saw #Syria become the world’s leading exporter of the drug. In our new post we examine whether we ought to be concerned about the industry’s largely undocumented environmental legacy: ceobs.org/pills-and-po... 1/4
Pills and pollution: Captagon production in Syria - CEOBS
Wartime Syria was the world’s leading producer of Captagon, should we be concerned about the pollution left behind?
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
And even with Captagon production reduced, just disposing of seized pills and precursors presents environmental risks, we found footage of disposal down drains and open air burning. You can read more on this story here: ceobs.org/pills-and-po... 4/4
A triptych with three photos from social media. Left: a red bucket of damp pills is poured down a municipal drain; centre: sacks of pills and related products can be seen piled and burning; right: security personnel walk on top of a huge pile of pills and white sacks of precursor chemicals.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
The new Syrian administration has allowed journalists to visit some sites and the photos are grim. Captagon production generates a range of chemical wastes, around 40 kg of highly acidic toxic chemical waste per 1 kg of amphetamine. 3/4
A row of one tonne poly caged bowsers stacked two high, the top layer are stained grey, some on the lower layer are still white in places. Several show a white solidified discharge, this is also coating much of the concrete floor in layers of white residue. It's a grim scene.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
The scale of Captagon production was vast, at its height involving huge government sanctioned labs and worth $5.7bn. More recently there has been a shift to smaller mobile labs but the environmental legacy may impact communities nationwide. 2/4
A map of Captagon production sites in Syria and Lebanon shows that formal production was concernatrted in the west of Syria and associated with major cities such as Latakia and Damascus. In the area along the Lebanese border small mobile laboratories are more common. An inset shows a setallite image of the large production lab discussed in teh text, it is a rectangular building with a car park set in arid hills.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
Assad’s embrace of #Captagon production saw #Syria become the world’s leading exporter of the drug. In our new post we examine whether we ought to be concerned about the industry’s largely undocumented environmental legacy: ceobs.org/pills-and-po... 1/4
Pills and pollution: Captagon production in Syria - CEOBS
Wartime Syria was the world’s leading producer of Captagon, should we be concerned about the pollution left behind?
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
Life finds a way in the Baltic. Marine organisms tolerate exposure to toxic munitions constituents to make a life on the casings of sea dumped munitions; organisms benefit from hard structures but replacing them with hard safe surfaces would be preferable phys.org/news/2025-09...
Sunk debris from World Wars provides home for wildlife
More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The findings, reported in a paper in Communications Earth & Enviro...
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 7d
Rare earth mining in #Myanmar is associated with water pollution and rapid deforestation according to a new study. The REEs end up in Chinese magnet manufacturers and then EVs and electronics globally. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/sate...
Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources has come at a steep cost to the area’s subtropica...
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 13d
An updated environmental assessment of Israel's war in #Gaza has been published by @unep.org. Even without field access it determines that "the scale of degradation is immense".

Below are some excerpts, the full report is here: www.unep.org/resources/re... 1/8
Environmental Impact of the Escalation of Conflict in the Gaza Strip
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued this report in response to a request from the State of Palestine to assess environmental damage arising from the conflict in the Gaza Strip, ...
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 11d
Russia's unprecedented military occupation of #Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant increasingly resembles a dangerous game of nuclear brinkmanship www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Safety fears as external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still out after three days
Ukrainian officials among those concerned Russia is manufacturing crisis to keep hold of frontline plant
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 11d
For more on the environmental toll in #Gaza, see @unep.org's updated assessment, which was published this week. bsky.app/profile/ceob...
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 13d
An updated environmental assessment of Israel's war in #Gaza has been published by @unep.org. Even without field access it determines that "the scale of degradation is immense".

Below are some excerpts, the full report is here: www.unep.org/resources/re... 1/8
Environmental Impact of the Escalation of Conflict in the Gaza Strip
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued this report in response to a request from the State of Palestine to assess environmental damage arising from the conflict in the Gaza Strip, ...
www.unep.org
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 11d
As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social observes, it's been clear for some time that Israel has been deliberately attacking #Gaza's life support systems.

With more ongoing conflicts than at any time since WW2, we can't ignore their environmental impact www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 12d
This week some of the @ceobs.org team volunteered at the excellent Incredible Farm in #Todmorden. We built an enclosure that will be a protected tree nursery and did battle with brambles.
Seven people stand in a field beside some fencing, the field has several young trees and behind it is a rolling rural landscape of green fields, small clouds are above and the sun is shining.
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