The burning of forests across Ukraine at unprecedented rates has pushed the total greenhouse emissions from the conflict to almost 230 million tonnes, according to a recent study. The fighting and its consequences have led to 55 million tonnes of GHG in the past 12 months.
It has been exactly three years ago that Russian troops marched into Ukraine, unleashing a brutal conflict that is still continuing. Global leaders are putting efforts into finding a solution and engaging in meticulous discussions for the same.
It had been an unusually dry and hot summer last year. These circumstances – possibly exacerbated by the climate crisis – resulted in a notable jump in landscape fires. Tens of thousands of hectares of land have been burned.
Researchers combined the emissions from fires and emissions from the conflict, building reconstruction, damage to energy infrastructure, refugee displacement and other factors to estimate emissions amounting to 229.7 million tonnes of CO2 since the fighting started.
