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Doug Weir
Doug Weir
Research and Policy Director, The Conflict and Environment Observatory
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, King’s College London
twitter: @detoxconflict   web: ceobs.org
email: doug [at] ceobs [dot] org
phone: 0044 7928 560 629

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Doug Weir has undertaken research and advocacy on the polluting legacy of armed conflicts and military activities since 2005. A former coordinator of the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, he later expanded his work to encompass conflict pollution and the toxic remnants of war, before establishing The Conflict and Environment Observatory to monitor and raise awareness of the environmental and derived humanitarian consequences of conflicts. Doug has contributed to a wide range of domestic, regional and international initiatives on conflict and the environment, with a current focus on the work of the UN Environment Assembly and on the progressive development of the legal framework protecting the environment in relation to armed conflicts. He holds degrees in Geology and Print Journalism from Manchester and Sheffield universities. 

Recent Publications:
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  • "Closing the environmental monitoring gap in conflicts," Institution of Environmental Sciences, July 2020.
  • "UN report details environmental degradation in West Bank and Gaza," Conflict and Environment Observatory, June 8, 2020.
  • "How does war damage the environment?" Conflict and Environment Observatory, June 4, 2020.
  • "Time to move beyond Yemen’s SAFER oil tanker blame game," Conflict and Environment Observatory, June 1, 2020.
  • ​"Brexit, chemicals legislation and the UK defence sector," Conflict and Environment Observatory, November 14, 2019.*
  • "Environment," First Committee Monitor, vol. 17, no. 6, November 11, 2019."The United Kingdom's practice on the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts," Conflict and Environment Observatory, October 14, 2019. ​
  • "Civilian science: the potential of participatory environmental monitoring in areas affected by armed conflicts," Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, September 6, 2019.
  • "How Yemen’s conflict destroyed its waste management system," Conflict and Environment Observatory, August 1, 2019.​
  • "A hazardous oil tanker has become a bargaining chip in the Yemen conflict," Conflict and Environment Observatory, May 16, 2019.
  • "The weaponisation of environmental information in the era of fake news," Conflict and Environment Observatory, May 16, 2019.
  • "Fanning the flames – the environmental impact of Gaza’s incendiary kites," CEOBS, July 2018
  • "The slow violence of pollution in Afghanistan," CEOBS, June 2018.
  • ​"How should the environment be protected in situations of occupation?" CEOBS, June 2018.
  • "The Global Pact for the Environment and the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts," CEOBS, May 2018.
  • "Is an ageing oil tanker threatening an environmental disaster off the coast of Yemen?" CEOBS, May 2018.
  • "Conflict pollution and the toxic remnants of war – a global problem that receives too little attention," UN Environment, February 2018.
  • "Reframing the Remnants of War - the Role of the International Law Commission, Governments and Civil Society," in Environmental Protection and Transitions from Conflict to Peace: Clarifying Norms, Principles and Practices, Oxford University Press, November 2017.

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