How does war affect the climate?

With the Ukrainian counter-offensive underway, Sophie Eastaugh
looks at the climate damage caused by the conflict there and by
the recent civil war in Tigray, Ethiopia. Sophie speaks to
Lennard de Klerk, a Dutch specialist in carbon accounting, who’s
just published the most comprehensive analysis yet of the
greenhouse gas emissions caused by the fighting in Ukraine. For
her part, an environmental researcher in Kyiv tells The Climate
Question her country may have an opportunity to build back
greener once the war is over.


The programme also hears from farmers in Tigray about how a
region once praised internationally for its reforestation efforts
is now losing tree cover at an alarming rate.


And this edition of The Climate Question looks more broadly at
the carbon footprint of militaries around the world, speaking to
Professor Neta Crawford, one of the leading experts in the field.
Presenter: Sophie Eastaugh Producer: Daniel Gordon Research: Matt
Toulson Sound Mix: Tom Brignell Series producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: China Collins Production coordinators: Sophie Hill,
Debbie Richford Contributors: Lennard de Klerk, Carbon Accounting
Expert Professor Neta Crawford, Balliol College, Oxford Natalia
Gozak, Ukrainian environmentalist Biniam Gidey, Reporter, Tigray,
Ethiopia