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January 2012
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This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. The report is divided into two main parts. Part 1 reviews the environmental management of peacekeeping operations and showcases good practices, technologies and behaviours that have already been adopted. Part 2 examines the role that peacekeeping operations have played in stabilizing countries where violent conflicts have been financed by natural resources – including diamonds, gold, timber and oil – or driven by grievances over their ownership, access and control.
January 2009
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This report inventories and analyses the range of international laws that protect the environment during armed conflict. With a view to identifying the current gaps and weaknesses in this system, the authors examine the relevant provisions within four bodies of international law – international humanitarian law (IHL), international criminal law (ICL), international environmental law (IEL), and international human rights law (HRL). The report concludes with twelve concrete recommendations on ways to strengthen this legal framework and its enforcement.
... 94 Courts and tribunals have expanded the traditional scope of harm subject to repa rations from personal injury and property to include environmental harm. 95 The first to do so was the UN Compensation Commission (UNCC), established to provide war repara tions for Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait. 96 sures, remediation and restoration, and public health monitoring. ...
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Armed Conflict and the Environment
April 2016
... 61 The Guidance also describes various factors that a State may take into consideration when deleting a wetland from the Ramsar List or restricting its boundaries due to national interests. 62 These factors include the national benefits of preserving the wetland system; consistency with national policies; the urgency of averting a significant threat; the existing ecological, social, and economic values of the site; and 56 Mrema et al. (2009) the impact on habitats harbouring threatened or endangered species. 63 The Guidance also calls for compensatory measures to be adopted based on various factors if a revision were to take place. ...
January 2009