Environmental Legacy of Wars
Program Description
In support of world-wide disarmament, GREEN CROSS established its global
'Environmental Consequences of Wars and Conflicts' Programme. It is the
first and most important of a total of now five global GREEN CROSS programmes.
The global Programme aims at overcoming the consequential damage caused
by industrial and military disasters in Eastern Europe, the USA and Vietnam.
First priority is given to the improvement of life quality of people who
have been affected by chemical, radioactive (e.g. Chernobyl) and other
kinds of contamination, as well as the promotion of a sustainable development
in project areas. The global 'Environmental Consequences of Wars and Conflicts'
Programme is divided into two programmes: Social and Medical Care and
Legacy of the Cold War.
Legacy of the Cold War facilitates the disarmament of chemical and conventional
weapons through the operation of public outreach and information offices,
mediation and confidence-building measures. The consequences of the military
use of nuclear materials on the environment and health are examined. Pilot
projects exemplify possibilities for the clean-up and conversion of military
bases. Further information on this programme.
Social and Medical Care implements medical and social projects for children,
young people and mothers. Therapy camps as well as training and nutrition
programmes contribute towards improving the living situation of the population
in contaminated areas. Further information
on this programme.
Events
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The tenth anniversary of the 1991
Unilateral Declarations : "Time to Control TacticalNuclear
Weapons"
President Gorbachev represented by Matt Petersen at the seminar
to mark the tenth anniversary of the 1991 Unilateral Declarations
- UN Headquarters, Room IV, New York -Sept 24, 2001 Draft
Agenda
- Check also: the "Chemical Weapons
Convention recent developments page"
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Russian Government Honours International Assistance
for Chemical Weapo Destruction, Flag - Raising Ceremony, 8 June, 2001
Press
release
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- GC Switzerland launched http://www.greencross.ch/
on Chemical Weapons.
- Time to Abolish Chemical Weapons
by Mikhail Gorbachev - September 2000
- Challenges to implementation
of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Russia - Status and prospects
at year end 2000 Moscow, November 13-14, 2000 - Press
release
- The Green Cross Legacy Programme, in collaboration with the Swedish
Defence Research Institute FOA, the University of Uppsala and the Strategic
Rocket Forces of the Russian Army, has started in August 2000 an oil
clean-up project on a nuclear missile base in the Baltic Area :
Press Release 19 sept 2000 - Tuesday
(Oct. 3) Press
Conference - Download the press release - English
- Français
- - Sixth Annual Legacy Forum
on Military Toxic Cleanup and the Environment : Sustainability in
the Southeast: Partnering Community, Industry, and Defense For Environmental
Protection - Featuring Special Guest: Mikhail
Gorbachev, President, Green Cross International
- SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4-5, 1999, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
STUDENT CENTER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Founder's
Dinner on December 4
- Abolition of Chemical Weapons: An Update on Russian and American Demilitarization
On the Second Anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention - 26th
May 1999 - Program
- Press release
War in Yugoslavia
Cold War in Europe
Preamble
Chemtrust:
- Challenges to implementation
of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Russia - Status and prospects
at year end 2000 Moscow, November 13-14, 2000
- Sixth Annual Legacy Forum
on Military Toxic Cleanup and the Environment : Sustainability in
the Southeast: Partnering Community, Industry, and Defense For Environmental
Protection - Featuring Special Guest: Mikhail
Gorbachev, President, Green Cross International
- SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4-5, 1999, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
STUDENT CENTER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Founder's
Dinner on December 4
- Announcement of the
Fifth Russian Public Hearing on Chemical Weapons Destruction Penza -
October 6-7, 1999
- The CBW Conventions
Bulletin, News, Background and Comment on Chemical and Biological Weapons
Issues (pdf)
- Chemical weapons destruction
in russia: Opportunities for Regional Development, Civil Society and
Business
- Final report on the examination
of a former chemical weapons destruction site near Leonidovka (Penza
region, Russia). The report contains a general description of the
Penza region, discusses the local hydrogeology, the sampling procedure,
the methodology of sample analyses, and presents results and conclusions.
Pictures and graphs have been omitted in favour of small file size.
Upon request, pictures or the Russian original report can be obtained
from Stephan Robinson.
Acknowledgments go to the Swiss Government for project funding and Parsons
Delaware Inc. for the English translation.
- Fifth Annual Legacy Forum
on Military Toxic Cleanup and Base Conversion , 19 November 1998
- Appeal of Public Organizations
at the first anniversary of the ratification of the Convention on the
ban of the development, production, accumulation, use, and destruction
of chemical weapons by the Russian Federation, Moscow, 4th November
1998
- An update on US and Russian Programs:
Workshop - July 1998, Capitoll Hill
- Fourth public hearing on chemical weapons destruction in the settlement
of Kizner and the city of Izhevsk, the Udmurt republic, Announcement
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Final Statement - Proceedings
Conweap
Socmed
War in Viet Nam
Gulf War in Kuwait
Report - An Environmental Assessment of Kuwait:
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