Documents
UN General Assembly resolution - and statements made during its introduction
- Resolution A/RES/56/4
declaring 6 November the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict - Statements made by members of the UN General Assembly during the introduction of the draft resolution (A/56/L.8) on the Observance of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (A/56/PV.37, pp. 21-26)
UNEP Reports
- On the Hoof - Livestock Trade in Darfur
- Greening the Blue Helmets (Executive Summary)
- Livelihood Security: Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel (Executive Summary)
- Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment of the Democratic Republic of Congo
- From Conflict to Peacebuilding – the Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
- UNEP Post-Conflict Environmental Assessments and Recovery Methodologies
- Environment and Security: a Global Agenda for UNEP
- Protecting the Environment During Armed Conflict: An Inventory and Analysis of International Law
- Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Analysis
- Assessment of Energy,Water and Waste Reduction Options for the Proposed AMISOM HQ Camp in Mogadishu, Somalia and the Support Base in Mombasa, Kenya
International Instruments
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) (8 June 1977)
- Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (10 December 1976)
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (24 September 1997)
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
Guidance notes
- Land (Executive Summary)
- Extractive Industries (Executive Summary)
- Renewable Resources (Executive Summary)
- Strengthening Capacity (Executive Summary)
- Capacity Inventory
- Resource-Rich Economies
ICRC
- International Committee of the Red Cross - Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on the Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict (Follow-up to the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, 1993. The guidelines are a summary of the existing applicable international rules which must be known and respected by members of the armed forces. )