Accounting for the climate fallout of the Russia-Ukraine war
The HinduPublished : Jun 07, 2023 16:34 IST - 4 MINS READ The war in Ukraine is deepening the climate crisis at a time when global greenhouse gas emissions are already running at a record high, according to a report by carbon accounting experts who have tallied the overall impact of the conflict. “If you look at the environmental costs of what’s happening in Ukraine, that war is a catastrophe when it comes to carbon emissions,” said James Appathurai, NATO’s deputy assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges. “Unfortunately, the impact of the war in Ukraine was not and will not be reflected in the reports and reviews of greenhouse gas emissions prepared annually by the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,” the Ministry said in an emailed statement. The US military’s war-related activities abroad between 2001-2018, including in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, caused 440 million tonnes of emissions, according to the Costs of War project at Brown University.
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