Environmental Harm in Armed Conflict: Closing the Accountability Gap
While international legal frameworks exist, the enforcement of environmental protections during war remains critically limited. We are working to bridge this gap, transforming ecological destruction from "collateral damage" into a matter of enforceable legal accountability.
War doesn’t end when the fighting stops. It stays in the soil, the water, and in people’s bodies for decades. And yet, environmental destruction in war is still treated as collateral damage, not as a crime. That gap is the problem. From Ukraine to Gaza to Iran, the pattern is clear. The law exists, but enforcement hasn’t followed. That is starting to change. At AllRise, we’re working to close that gap, turning environmental harm into enforceable accountability.
Johannes Wesemann explains more below.