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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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Strengthening the OSCE’s Climate Security Agenda

Library
2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Emma Hakala and Florian Krampe


Anchored in Action: Operationalizing NATO's Climate Security Plan in the Arctic Maritime Domain

Library
2025 | Arctic Institute
Pauline Baudu and Fabio Lissi


Russia-Ukraine War Has Altered the Pattern of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Shipping in the Black Sea Region

Library
2025 | Communications Earth & Environment
Yuanquan Xu, Pengjun Zhao, Tingting Kang, and Kun Qin


Russia-Ukraine War Has Altered the Pattern of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Shipping in the Black Sea Region

Library
2025 | Communications Earth & Environment
Yuanquan Xu, Pengjun Zhao, Tingting Kang, and Kun Qin


Women’s Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding: Converging Nature, Climate, and Peace

Library
2025 | CCCU Research Space Repository
I. Kopytsia and N. Slobodian


How the Ongoing Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine Can Affect the Global Wheat Food Security?

Library
2025 | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb and Velu Govindan


Wartime Geomorphological Damage and Geodiversity Loss in Ukraine

Library
2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
Rob Watson and Stella Shekhunova


From Conflict to a Climate Future: Unraveling the Nexus between Warfare and Environmental Degradation

Briefs & Development
2025 | Sustainable Futures
Musrat Nazir, Imran Khan, Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah, Talat Islam, Kamran Azam, Imran Naseem, and Khalid Zaman


Hidden Depths — Introduction: Water Conflict and Cooperation [Video]

Library
2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Doug Weir, Iryna Babanina, and Peter Gleick


Assessing Pollution from Explosive Weapons in Southern Ukraine

Library
2025 | Norwegian People's Aid and Conflict and Environment Observatory
Iryna Babanina, Anna McKean, Anastasiia Splodytel, and Doug Weir


The Unprecedented Ramsar Resolution: Ukrainian Wetlands Protection in Armed Confict

Briefs & Development
2024 | Netherlands International Law Review
Meng Wang


Green Inclusive Leadership, Green Policy, and Pursuit of Sustainability in Natural Resources: A Firm-Level Analysis in Context of Ukraine-Russia

Library
2024 | Resources Policy
Kexiang Hu, Yanyu Chen, Siying Mu, and Zhixiong Tan


Environmental Consequences for the World of Russia's War against Ukraine

Library
2024 | International Journal of Environmental Studies
Ermir Shahini, Olena Shebanina, Iurii Kormyshkin, Antonina Drobitko, and Natalya Chernyavskaya


Russian Gas and the Fight for the Italian Right: Implications of Meloni's and Salvini's Russian Energy Policy in the 2024 EU Parliamentary Elections

Library
2024 | CeSPI - Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale
Tyler Leonard


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


Environmental Accountability, Justice and Reconstruction in the Russian War on Ukraine

Briefs & Development
2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Jiyayi Zhou and Ian Anthony


Impact of the Russia–Ukraine Armed Conflict on Water Resources and Water Infrastructure

Briefs & Development
2023 | Nature Sustainability
Oleksandra Shumilova, Klement Tockner, Alexander Sukhodolov, Valentyn Khilchevskyi, Luc De Meester, Sergiy Stepanenko, Ganna Trokhymenko, Juan Antonio Hernández-Agüero, and Peter Gleick


Protecting Nuclear Power Plants during War: Implications from Ukraine

Library
2023 | Environmental Law Reporter
Erika Weinthal and Carl Bruch


Briefing Paper on Nuclear Weapons, the Environment, and the Climate Crisis

Briefs & Development
2023 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons