Strengthening Field Environmental Management: Assessing the Green Field Tool Roll-out in NPA
Publisher: Conflict and Environment Observatory and Norwegian People's Aid
Author(s): Anna McKean, Jonathan Walsh, and Doug Weir
Date: 2025
Topics: Climate Change, Extractive Resources, Monitoring and Evaluation, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Mine action takes place in some of the world’s most fragile environments that are impacted by conflict, pollution and degraded ecosystems. As the climate crisis accelerates, these vulnerabilities deepen. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, intense rainfall, and extreme weather events not only endanger communities but also directly affect how explosive remnants of war behave, move, and deteriorate. Contamination can shift due to flooding, heat can reduce working hours, and increased precipitation and storms can halt operations.