Questionnaire: Enhancing Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Conflict-Affected Settings (EN, FR, ES)
Publisher: Conflict and Environment Observatory
Author(s): Taygeti Michalakea and Stavros Pantazopoulos
Date: 2021
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance
Corporations contribute to environmental harm in conflict-affected areas in numerous ways, including through the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and the circulation of arms, enabling wildlife crime and poaching. The activities of corporations can also undermine the environmental security of communities, in turn posing threats to human security, and triggering local disputes that impede peace-building. The report ‘Enhancing corporate environmental responsibility in conflict-affected settings’, sought to reconceptualise environmental protection during and after conflicts as a key component for the field of Security and Rule of Law. Through a comparative exercise, the report aims to enhance the understanding of the intersecting rules that should govern the environmental conduct of states and corporations in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS), as well as clarify the obligations of those actors during the phase of transition. The report is available here: https://ceobs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CEOBS-Enhancing_corp_resp_areas_affected_conflicts.pdf Based on the this policy report and its policy recommendations, the authors have developed the following questionnaire with the view of encouraging the environmentally sound behaviour of states and corporations in fragile and conflict-affected settings.