Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Ukraine-Russia

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, as well as the previous occupation of the Crimea and conflict in Eastern Ukraine, has had many environmental effects. This subsite collects resources relating to the environmental dimensions of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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A Rapid Environmental Risk Assessment of the Kakhovka Dam Breach during the Ukraine Conflict

Library
2024 | Nature Ecology & Evolution
Bryan M. Spears, Quillon Harpham, Emma Brown, Catherine L. Barnett, Louise Barwell, Marta Roca Collell, Mark Davison, Harry Dixon, J. Alex Elliott, Angus Garbutt, Caroline Hazlewood, Barabara Hofmann, James Lanyon, Stephen Lofts, Colin MacKechnie, Sergiy

Tracking Unaccounted Greenhouse Gas Emissions Due to the War in Ukraine Since 2022

Library
2024 | Science of the Total Environment
Rostyslav Bun, Gregg Marland, Tomohiro Oda, Linda See, Enrique Puliafito, Zbigniew Nahorski, Mathias Jonas, Vasyl Kovalyshyn, Iolanda Ialongo, Orysia Yashchun, and Zoriana Romanchuk

Ukraine: Reframing the Narrative of Climate, Environmental Degradation and Conflict

Library
2024 | International Rescue Committee
Clément Iraola and Beatrice Mosello

Mapping the Vulnerability of Ukraine's Groundwater

Library
2024 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

Conservation Policies Must Address an Overlooked Issue: How War Affects the Environment

Briefs & Development
2024 | Nature
Doug Weir, Sarah M. Durant, Henrike Schulte to Bühne, Michael Hoffmann, Olesya Petrovych, Beth Sua Carvajal, and Sara Fernandes Elizalde

Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Destruction and the Need for Accountability [Video]

Multimedia
2024 | Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Kristina Hook, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, and Maryna Boydyuk

Environmental Security in War and Armed Conflict [Video]

Multimedia
2024 | UN Web TV

War's Hidden Victim: The Environmental Toll of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Library
2024 | Peace Magazine
Alexander Belyakov

Commodities as Weapons: How Russia's Natural Resources are Fuelling Its Imperialistic Aggression against the West

Library
2024 | Macdonald Laurier
Sergey Sukhankin

Dead Water from Russia: Fish and Other Life Perish in the Polluted Waters of the Seim River

Briefs & Development
2024 | Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group

From COP28 to COP29 with Ukraine at the Front: Linking Climate, Security and Peace

Briefs & Development
2024 | Oxford University Faculty of Law
Ievgeniia Kopytsia

Destruction of the Oskil Dam in Ukraine, March–September 2022: A Remote Assessment of Environmental Impacts

Library
2024 | Conflict Observatory
CURIA Lab

Water Wars: Water Increasingly at the Center of Conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East

International
Dec 28, 2023 | Ian James, Los Angeles Times

Ukraine/Russia: Russia Covered up and Undercounted True Human Cost of Floodings after Dam Explosion, AP Investigation Finds

International
Dec 28, 2023 | Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov, Associated Press

Empowering Change: Highlights from the High-Level Regional Workshop on Gender Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction in Eastern Africa by UNESCO

International
Sep 11, 2023 | UNESCO

Ukraine-Russia

Resources

A Rapid Environmental Risk Assessment of the Kakhovka Dam Breach during the Ukraine Conflict

Tracking Unaccounted Greenhouse Gas Emissions Due to the War in Ukraine Since 2022

Ukraine: Reframing the Narrative of Climate, Environmental Degradation and Conflict

Mapping the Vulnerability of Ukraine's Groundwater

Conservation Policies Must Address an Overlooked Issue: How War Affects the Environment

Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Destruction and the Need for Accountability [Video]

Environmental Security in War and Armed Conflict [Video]

War's Hidden Victim: The Environmental Toll of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Commodities as Weapons: How Russia's Natural Resources are Fuelling Its Imperialistic Aggression against the West

Dead Water from Russia: Fish and Other Life Perish in the Polluted Waters of the Seim River

From COP28 to COP29 with Ukraine at the Front: Linking Climate, Security and Peace

Destruction of the Oskil Dam in Ukraine, March–September 2022: A Remote Assessment of Environmental Impacts

Water Wars: Water Increasingly at the Center of Conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East

Ukraine/Russia: Russia Covered up and Undercounted True Human Cost of Floodings after Dam Explosion, AP Investigation Finds

Ukraine/Russia: UWEC Work Group: The Year in Review

Afghanistan: New Plan Discussed for Mes Ainak Mine Development

Nature-Based Recovery Needed for Ukraine’s Damaged Protected Areas

Ukraine: Ukraine Needs More Air Defenses to Protect Grain Exports, Zelenskiy Says

Ukraine: AI Warfare: The Company Hunting Land Mines in Ukraine

Ukraine: Ukrainian Farmers Share Their Stories, Agricultural Challenges during Wartime

Ukraine: UN Reports 'Staggering' $14 Billion Cost of Ukraine Dam Breach

Ukraine: Fires in Askania-Nova: Consequences of Military Occupation of a Reserve

Ukraine: A Massive Fire Breaks out in an Oil Pipeline in Ukraine

Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine War: Training to Clear the World's Most Heavily Mined Country

Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine Reclaims Black Sea Oil and Gas Platforms from Russia, Kyiv Says

Empowering Change: Highlights from the High-Level Regional Workshop on Gender Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction in Eastern Africa by UNESCO

Afghanistan: Since Political Change, Nearly 50 Clashes Happened on Border Areas: MoI

Ukraine/Russia: There’s a Battle over Carbon Emerging from the War in Ukraine

Ukraine War: After the Shooting Stops Landmines Will Keep Killing – as We’ve Seen in Too Many Countries

Russia: Russia's Coal Basin Struggles with Closed Mines, Pollution. And Now the Toll from Ukraine War.