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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has directly caused or paved the way to the emission of 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a joint report said on Thursday. The report ...
Lots of research is required to fully estimate the environmental damage caused by the Russian invasion, although this is impractical until hostilities cease. [13] As of June 2022, Ukraine's Ministry of Environment estimates the cost at €6.6 billion. [14]
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky moved quickly to call the incident “a war crime” and the “largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades”.
The report recommended that Ukraine's prosecutor general develop a strategy for prosecuting wartime environmental damage and consider ratifying the Rome Statute, which established the ...
Ruslan Strilets, Ukrainian Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, said on 21 June that the destruction of the dam caused an initial US$1.5 billion [232] of damage, and also warned that Russian mines released by flooding could float onto the shores of other European countries. [233]
Based on a preliminary assessment the Russian invasion of Ukraine has inflicted USD 51 billion in environmental damage in both territories. According to a report by the Yale School of the Environment , some 687,000 tons of petrochemicals have burned as a result of shelling, while nearly 1,600 tons of pollutants have leaked into bodies of water.
Thousands forced to flee flooded homes in Kherson as devastating eco-disaster on Dnipro river threatens to decimate local agricultural sector and imperil Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The war in Ukraine is one of the main causes. The projects could lead to a “climate bomb” equivalent to the annual emissions of all the world’s operating coal power plants. [104] As of December 2024, the war in Ukraine has detrimental effect on global climate action and strongly increased emissions. [105]