Greening the blue helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations - Executive Summary

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dc.audienceGlobal
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-24T06:36:28Z
dc.date.available2017-11-24T06:36:28Z
dc.date.issued2012-05-01
dc.descriptionThis is the executive summary of the Greening the Blue Helmets report. The report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. At the same time, the report also highlights the positive efforts that have been undertaken to reduce the environmental impacts of UN peacekeeping operations. This report shows that peacekeeping operations not only have important natural resource implications, as well as significant impacts on the environment, but also that natural resources are often a fundamental aspect of conflict resolution, livelihoods and confidence-building at the local level. The report is divided into two main parts. Part 1 reviews the environmental management of peacekeeping operations and showcases good practices, technologies and behaviours that have already been adopted. Part 2 examines the role that peacekeeping operations have played in stabilizing countries where violent conflicts have been financed by natural resources – including diamonds, gold, timber and oil – or driven by grievances over their ownership, access and control. It has been developed by UNEP in consultation with a number of international experts and nongovernmental organizations. Full report is available at: https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8840 en
dc.description.urihttps://www.unep.org/resources/report/greening-blue-helmets-environment-natural-resources-and-un-peacekeeping-operations
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/22230
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectenvironmental impact assessment
dc.subjectpeacekeeping
dc.subjectbuilding material
dc.subjectenergy efficiency
dc.subjectwaste management
dc.subjectnatural resource
dc.subjectenvironmental policy
dc.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on Land
dc.subject.sdgSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.titleGreening the blue helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations - Executive Summaryen
dc.typePolicy brief
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000049
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000050

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