Conflict carbon could cost Russia billions in reparations
A surge in climate emissions from the war in Ukraine could cost Russia billions of dollars in additional reparations, according to carbon tracking experts and the Ukrainian government, reports Catherine Early. Billions of litres of fuel used by military vehicles, almost a million hectares of fields and forests set ablaze, hundreds of oil and gas structures blown up and vast amounts of steel and cement used to fortify hundreds of miles of front lines have resulted in emissions totalling roughly 175 million tonnes of carbon ...
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