Will UNEA-4 Miss the Opportunity to Link Conflict with Deforestation?

Mar 11, 2019 | Wim Zwijnenburg and Foeke Postma
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In spite of recent resolutions on conflict and the environment, the UN Environment Assembly is failing to make obvious connections between environmental issues and their relationship to armed conflicts. A resolution on deforestation currently being negotiated in Nairobi is a case in point. In this blog, Wim Zwijnenburg and Foeke Postma argue that until states make these connections, awareness of the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts will remain low, with implications for effective policy-making.