The United Nations Environment Assembly adopted a resolution on May 27, 2016 that identified the part a healthy environment plays in reducing the probability of an armed conflict.
To raise awareness about this, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 6 as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict on November 5, 2001. While this aspect of war is largely talked about, the consequences of war on the environment have not become a pressing issue for many. Human lives are always lost in any kind of armed conflict in any part of the world.
